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|  Subject: film faves  Sat 19 Jan 2008, 15:12 | |
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A Zed And Two Noughts (1985)
Peter Greenaway
"Do you think a zebra is a white animal with black stripes, or a black animal with white stripes?"
A car collides with a swan outside a zoo. Two women passengers die and the driver, Alba Bewick, has to have her leg amputated. Obsessed with the accident, the husbands of the women - twins Oliver and Oswald - embark on an affair with Alba and soon begin experimenting with the time-lapse aesthetics of decay.
A Zed & Two Noughts is a visceral and cerebral treat, as dead animals decompose to the jokey rhythms of Michael Nyman, symmetry is elevated beyond obsession, and Sascha Vierney's cinematography pays homage to Vermeer. Full of surprises and magnificent conumdrums, Greenaway's third feature is as perversely comic and teasing as it is shocking. |
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