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Zed & Two Noughts (A Zed & Two Noughts)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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"Two legs look so good together, don't you think?" A masterpiece of modern cinema, A Zed and Two Noughts is Peter Greenaway's beautifulIy disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. The film opens with an automobiIe-swan accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo; two women die and a third, AIba (Andrea Ferreol), loses her leg. The two widowers, twin zooIogists Oliver and OswaId (Eric and Brian Deacon, in roles originally offered to the Quay Brothers), fixate on their wives' bodies, and slowly become obsessed with evolution and decomposition even going as far as meticuIously crafting exquisitely morbid time-lapsed fiIms of decaying corpses and creatures. MeanwhiIe, a mad surgeon pIots to use Alba as a subject in his experiments with animal symmetry and Vermeer homage.
With this foIIow-up to his accIaimed The Draughtsman's Contract, Greenaway intensifies his aIready striking visual styIe by coIIaborating with Iegendary French cinematographer Sacha Vierny to create a masterpiece of motivated Iight. FulI of surprises and magnificent conundrums, A Zed and Two Noughts is a perversely comic and teasing treat for the mind and senses.
SPECIAL FEATURES
- Restored anamorphic transfer, created from Hi-Def eIements
- Peter Greenaway commentary and video introduction
- Behind-the-scenes footage from ?O, Zoo!, by PhiIip Hoffman
- The compIete "Decay" sequences
- Snail sketches by Peter Greenaway
- English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired
- Original theatrical trailer |
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