![]() UK, Netherlands / 1985 / colour / English, optional subtitles for the hard-of-hearing /ġ17 mins / original aspect ratio 1. * Illustrated 26-page booklet featuring film notes, biography, review and interview Rarely seen COI film exploring Britain’s coastline, with music by Michael Nyman * The Sea in Their Blood (Peter Greenaway, 1983, 28 mins). * Extracts from ?O, Zoo! (Philip Hoffman, 1986, 7 mins) * Full feature commentary with director Peter Greenaway This Blu-ray release also includes a Peter Greenaway short, The Sea in Their Blood (1983), a rarely seen COI film exploring Britain’s coastline, with music by Michael Nyman. Obsessed with the accident, the zoologist husbands of the dead women – twins Oliver and Oswald (Eric and Brian Deacon) – become fascinated by the processes of decay and embark on an affair with the amputee.Īs dead animals decompose to the playful rhythms of Michael Nyman, symmetry is elevated beyond obsession, and Sascha Vierny’s cinematography pays homage to Vermeer.įull of surprises and magnificent conundrums, Peter Greenaway’s third feature is as perversely comic and teasing as it is shocking. Two women passengers die but the driver, Alba Bewick (Andréa Ferréol), survives with a leg amputation. Released by the BFI in a new High Definition transfer on Blu-ray, it includes a full feature commentary with the director.Ī car collides with a swan outside a zoo. A Zed & Two Noughts 1985 Not Rated 1h 55m IMDb RATING 7.2 /10 7.3K YOUR RATING Rate Comedy Drama Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals. Peter Greenaway followed his international arthouse hit The Draughtsman’s Contract with this extraordinary tale of obsession. Theatrical trailers for A Zed & Two Noughts and The Draughtsman's Contract ![]() A fully illustrated booklet featuring film notes, biography, review and interview Rarely seen COI film exploring Britains coastline. The Sea in Their Blood (Peter Greenaway, 1983, 28 minutes). Original theatrical trailer (3 Minutes) Extracts from ?O, Zoo! (Philip Hoffman, 1986, 7 minutes) Video introduction by Peter Greenaway (7 minutes) Full feature commentary with director Peter Greenaway Full of surprises and magnificent conundrums, Peter Greenaway's third feature is as perversely comic and teasing as it is shocking. Obsessed with the accident, the zoologist husbands of the dead women - twins Oliver and Oswald, become fascinated by the processes of decay and embark on an affair with the amputee.Īs dead animals decompose to the playful rhythms of Michael Nyman, symmetry is elevated beyond obsession, and Sascha Vierny's cinematography pays homage to Vermeer. In a horrific automobile-swan accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo, two women die and a third, Alba (Andrea Ferréol), loses her leg. Two women passengers die but the driver, Alba Bewick survives with a leg amputation. A masterpiece of modern cinema, A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS is Peter Greenaway’s beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. A car collides with a swan outside a zoo.
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