A Zed & Two Noughts

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g j A gaudily shot, annoyingly acted and horribly paced slog of a film, that is considerably less enjoyable than the nature documentaries that it sporadically displays snippets of. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 08/07/24 Full Review Audience Member i'm not sure what i think about this one; the premise is definitely weird - but the movie itself was really quite boring. i thought the random time-lapses were misplaced until the very end - which i *did* like - a tragic ending, by their own doing/obsession. so i did find this movie to be interesting, you just have to sit through a lot to get there. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review Audience Member This one's a wild ride. It's about these twin brothers whose wives die in a freak accident, so they get obsessed with the process of death and decomposition and begin taking stop-motion photography of animals decomposing. They get them from the zoo where they happen to work. So throughout the film randomly interspersed through the plot, you watch a time lapse of larger and larger animals decomposing in time lapse with jaunty music. Another plot centers around a Vermeer obsessed veterinarian who attempts to transform his patients into replicas of those found in Vermeer's paintings. There's a lot going on here which will probably take multiple views to process. Pitch black humor. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Peter Greenaway's films may be an acquired taste, and this one certainly falls into that category - a visually stylistic examination into who-knows-what. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member The wives of twin doctors working for a zoo are killed in a car accident. The woman in the other car survives, but loses a leg. The brothers develop an obsessive sexual relationship with her ... and a ton of other things happen. They become obsessed with death and film time lapse footage of putrefying animal corpses. A young girl learns the alphabet. They amputate the other leg because ... well, symmetry I guess. I like but don't love this film. It has a lot of Greenaway's hallmarks ... a slightly atypical, but incredible Michael Nyman score, stunning cinematography from Sacha Vierny (working with Greenaway for the first time) ... but the film is ultimately too meandering and unfocused for me. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member With a great score and painstaking attention to visual detail, Peter Greenaway makes you see birth and decay in a new and profound light with A Zed and Two Noughts. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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