![]() ![]() We also have excellent cinematography from Greenaway's common collaborator Sacha Vierney, with many shots being a joy to behold. Of the latter are several time-lapse films showing a variety of animals and organic matter decaying - films which were fascinating and repulsive in equal measure. But setting this aside, amongst other things, it's an intriguing concoction about symmetry, birth and decay. Needless to say, the dialogue is painful to listen to and ultimately makes the film hard work and not in a good way. His script constantly tries to be clever, which is not the same thing as actually being clever. Greenaway is really terrible at writing dialogue. ![]() The good is the visual presentation and distinctive bizarre qualities, the bad is more or less any time someone opens their mouths, which unfortunately is quite often. This strange film features both the good and the bad typical of Greenaway. She later has the other one removed surgically for symmetrical reasons and falls pregnant to the twins. Shortly afterwards these men start simultaneous affairs with the survivor of the accident, the driver Alba Bewick who lost a leg as a result of the crash. These women are twins who were in turn married to a couple of twin zoologists, Oliver and Oswald Deuce. It begins with a car accident at a zoo, where two women are killed when their vehicle collides with a pregnant swan. This is hardly surprising given that it was directed by the avant-gardist director Peter Greenaway. Before viewing, it helps to view the 26 Vermeer paintings.įor better or for worse, A Zed & Two Noughts is a very unusual film. One twin searches it for the red herring among the clues, the red herring that explains the trumping of randomness over purpose. The only such effort is the thread of a film about the origin of life that is interwoven. But with this film, he has temporarily abandoned the layering and successive self-referential annotation that is his most unique contribution to the art. `The Falls' is a must, but takes discipline. I rank this with `The Draughtsman's Contract,' and `Drowning by Numbers ' all three have concessions to an understandable narrative. `Prospero's Books' and `The Pillow Book' are the most accomplished without compromise. Which is the best Greenaway? This is the best start, I think. A good Greenaway is something to be relished. This is a wonderful film, much richer symbolically than `Cook,' a stronger narrative than `Drowning,' better photography and music than `Belly,' of the following year. Pretentious? Preposterous? Predicatory? Naah. It is just a framework for lush compositions and an ornate allegorical framework. ![]() siamese twins fathering twins, bias against black and white animals, a crooked vet who is a Vermeer counterfeiter, and multiple suicides all to children's music. Cosmetic amputation, timelapse of rotting corpses. ![]()
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