Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.
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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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Oswald Deuce: You what?
Oliver Deuce: You are?
Alba Bewick: I am.
Oswald Deuce: Good lord.
Oliver Deuce: You can?
Alba Bewick: Of course! Is leglessness a form of contraception?
Oswald Deuce: I'm not sure.
Alba Bewick: You're not sure!
Oswald Deuce: I'm delighted!
[...]
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Music by John W. Bratton
Lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy
Performed by The BBC Dance Orchestra
Directed by Henry Hall
Courtesy of EMI MUSIC PUBLISHING LTD and EMI RECORDS LTD
Also sung by Venus De Milo (Frances Barber)
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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
Alba Bewick: I am about to become a mother, and you are about to become a father... or fathers.Oswald Deuce: You what?
Oliver Deuce: You are?
Alba Bewick: I am.
Oswald Deuce: Good lord.
Oliver Deuce: You can?
Alba Bewick: Of course! Is leglessness a form of contraception?
Oswald Deuce: I'm not sure.
Alba Bewick: You're not sure!
Oswald Deuce: I'm delighted!
[...]
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The Teddy Bear's PicnicMusic by John W. Bratton
Lyrics by Jimmy Kennedy
Performed by The BBC Dance Orchestra
Directed by Henry Hall
Courtesy of EMI MUSIC PUBLISHING LTD and EMI RECORDS LTD
Also sung by Venus De Milo (Frances Barber)
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Greenaway's obsessions with lists, wordplay, coincidence, sexuality, the surreal, and the explicit (not to mention the "conventionally used" ones like men and women, birth and eating and death, physiology (formal and psychological), and abstraction) come to a head in this film. A bizarre mileau of fancy digressions and focused narrativity create a film which is perhaps too obtuse for first time viewers but is, as far as I'm concerned, the best way to initiate oneself into the "world" of Greenaway.