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03/26/09
A Zed and Two Noughts (1985)
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Reviews Counted: 18
Fresh: 14
Rotten:4
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: The always elliptical Peter Greenaway once again creates a beautiful film-as-puzzle. The tale begins when a car wreck involving a rare swan kills the wife of a doctor (who has a twin brother, also... [More]
Starring: Andrea Ferreol, Brian Deacon, Eric Deacon, Frances Barber
Director: Peter Greenaway
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Reviews for A Zed and Two Noughts
Top Criticliked this better the second time around, but it's still not one of my favorite Greenaways.
02/29/08
None of Greenaway's films take place in anything resembling naturalism or realism, and they don't feel modern. They're like archaic storybook adaptations of Jacobean plays illustrated by Vermeer.
01/22/08
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01/18/08
Enjoyable as a work of perversion.
11/08/07
An enjoyably decadent, ridiculously convoluted thingamajig.
07/05/07
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06/24/06
Greenaway when he was still hungry.
03/13/06
Another exercise in cataloguing, another elaborate death ritual, and another story inhabited with fixation
01/25/06
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07/16/05
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08/30/04
Top CriticIt’s frustratingly interesting for the director’s self-indulgences ...
02/21/04
Greenaway's eccentric exploration of where all life's absurd varieties must begin and end is, like a road accident, always fascinating, if not exactly pleasurable, to watch.
02/13/04
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01/29/04
Fatally pretentious crap. (But it's fun to say if you're a Renaissance Faire warrior whose costume never comes off.)
01/26/04
A great film which can be explored on multiple levels.
08/22/03
Greenaway's most misogynistic film to date!
07/25/03
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06/19/03
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05/24/03
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