Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.
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Title: A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)
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| Andréa Ferréol | ... | Alba Bewick | |
| Brian Deacon | ... | Oswald Deuce | |
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Eric Deacon | ... | Oliver Deuce |
| Frances Barber | ... | Venus de Milo | |
| Joss Ackland | ... | Van Hoyten | |
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Jim Davidson | ... | Joshua Plate |
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Agnès Brulet | ... | Beta Bewick |
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Guusje van Tilborgh | ... | Caterina Bolnes |
| Gerard Thoolen | ... | Van Meegeren | |
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Ken Campbell | ... | Stephen Pipe |
| Wolf Kahler | ... | Felipe Arc-en-Ciel | |
| Geoffrey Palmer | ... | Fallast | |
| David Attenborough | ... | Himself - Documentary Narrator (voice) | |
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Identical twins Oliver and Oswald Deuce lose their wives in a car crash caused by a white swan. The brothers, who are zoologists, become obsessed with the death and decay of animals. They both have a relationship with Alba, the driver of the crashed car, who loses first one leg then the other. When Alba dies, the twins film their own death. Written by <P.M.Laws@education.leeds.ac.uk>
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Release Date:
25 May 1990 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Zoo See more »Filming Locations:
Rotterdam Zoo, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, NetherlandsCompany Credits
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1.66 : 1
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Music by 'The Happy Farmer' (Opus 68, No.10) by Robert Schumann
Performed by Lupino Lane with The BBC Dance Orchestra
Directed by Henry Hall
Courtesy of EMI MUSIC PUBLISHING LTD and EMI RECORDS LTD
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Early in the movie, we are shown a front-page newspaper article about the deaths of the protagonists' wives. This front page also contains sidebar articles detailing events from two of director Peter Greenaway's subsequent films, The Belly of an Architect (1987) (the article headlined "Architect Dies") and Drowning by Numbers (1988) (the article headlined "A Hot Bath Heart Attack"). See more »Quotes
Oliver Deuce: Pregnant women are notoriously unreliable. Especially when they're trying to procure an abortion.See more »
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An Elephant Never ForgetsMusic by 'The Happy Farmer' (Opus 68, No.10) by Robert Schumann
Performed by Lupino Lane with The BBC Dance Orchestra
Directed by Henry Hall
Courtesy of EMI MUSIC PUBLISHING LTD and EMI RECORDS LTD
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(Movie quote) - "So, tell me - Is a zebra a white animal with black stripes, or is it a black animal with white stripes?"
Even though I definitely found this 1985, British, "art" film to be something of a "hit'n'miss" production, it was its very striking camera-work by French cinematographer, Sacha Vierny, that certainly helped to elevate it to a position that set it well-beyond the realm of being considered just purely mundane entertainment.
Surreal, eccentric and bizarre (and, yes, at times, quite puzzling) - "A Zed And 2 Noughts" definitely had me wondering, often enough, what kind of a curve director Peter Greenaway was going to hurl at me next with this weird and somewhat disturbing tale of obsession with decaying flesh and the amputation of body parts.
Certainly not a film to please everyone (and certainly not a film with a gripping plot-line) - I, for one, thought "A Zed And 2 Noughts" was well-worth a view simply for the freakish biology lesson that it quite cleverly wedged into its wacky, little story (all at no extra cost).