This results in leaving the viewer cold and making the film more of an ‘Avant-garde experiment’ than an actual story. A good movie, no matter how ‘artistic’ it may be still needs relatable characters to help propel it and instead this movie has what amounts to mouth pieces in disguise as people who are simply used to relay a concept, but in no way connected to anyone you’d ever meet in real life. The film’s drawbacks are the characters that come off as too weird and twisted, which is an issue in a lot of Greenaway’s movies that are always technically brilliant, but lacking in emotion or empathy. It gives the film a unique one-of-a-kind edge and something I wished had been shown even more. Zed & Two Noughts contains all of his standard preoccupations, and perhaps its lack of interest in character development and human feeling only helps to isolate the single-mindedness of Greenaway’s cinema. I realize this may sound extremely morbid and ‘sick’, but it’s a natural process of the world we live in and if taken from a purely scientific perspective quite an interesting and fascinating phenomenon to watch. The best part of the movie is its depiction of the real-life decaying process captured in time-lapse form. Usually one can tell what decade a movie is from by watching it for only a few minutes, but this film is unlike any other ‘80s movie made, which is an achievement unto itself. Following a fatal car crash involving a swan outside a zoo, twin-brother zoologists Oliver and Oswald become fascinated by the processes of decay. This is also one of the few films that completely transcend its era. The vivid contrasting colors, lighting and symmetrically designed sets make each and every shot look like its own painting. A Zed and Two Noughts Twin brothers are left behind when their wives die in a road accident. This was the first of ten projects that Director Peter Greenaway and cinematographer Sacha Vierny collaborated on and the result is stunning. They start with dead animals before deciding on a human subject with Alba as their chosen ‘star’.įrom a completely visual level this film can be considered a great success. To help with their grief they begin doing time-lapse photography of the decaying process. A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS Channel Four Films/Skouras Pictures. Initially the brothers’ are angered with her, but this slowly grows into a strange attraction, which eventually forms into a ménage a trois. Oswald and Oliver (Brian and Eric Deacon) are twin brothers working at a zoo who become devastated to learn that both of their wives have died in the same freak accident in a car driven by Alba (Andrea Ferreol) who survives, but without her leg. The archive contains contains information on film, TV and interactive productions that were screened at past festival editions. 4-Word Review: They’re really into decay. Title: A Zed and Two Noughts Year: 1985 Duration : 1 hour, 55 minutes Category: Feature film Edition: NFF 1986.
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