liked this better the second time around, but it's still not one of my favorite Greenaways.
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02/29/08
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
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
Another exercise in cataloguing, another elaborate death ritual, and another story inhabited with fixation
01/25/06
You want to look away, but it's so perversely fascinating that you can't bring yourself to. That is both its brilliance and the reason it should be approached with caution.
01/09/03
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
An enjoyably decadent, ridiculously convoluted thingamajig.
07/05/07
Top CriticIt’s frustratingly interesting for the director’s self-indulgences ...
02/21/04
Enjoyable as a work of perversion.
11/08/07
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08/30/04
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03/26/09
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05/24/03
Top CriticGreenaway's most misogynistic film to date!
07/25/03
A great film which can be explored on multiple levels.
08/22/03
Fatally pretentious crap. (But it's fun to say if you're a Renaissance Faire warrior whose costume never comes off.)
01/26/04
Greenaway when he was still hungry.
03/13/06
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