A Zed & Two Noughts Page #2

Synopsis: 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.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Peter Greenaway
Production: Wellspring Media Inc.
 
IMDB:
7.5
Rotten Tomatoes:
79%
NOT RATED
Year:
1985
115 min
Website
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In the seas there are uncountable

numbers of creatures.

Myriads of simply structured organisms,

whose ancestors began to appear some,

2,000 million years ago

from among the primitive bacteria

and the first algae.

Oliver, I'm sorry about your bad news.

Can the zoo help?

- What are you watching?

- The beginnings of life.

- It's cathartic.

- What is?

Watching life begin.

- Yes?

- Yes!

'Cause I know how it ends.

- How does it end?

- With a swan.

- Oh, yes.

- And a white car,

a Ford Mercury,

registration number, NID26BW,

driven by a woman with flaming red hair,

surrounded by white feathers,

called Alba Bewick.

Then I'm sorry that

you'll find this film inaccurate.

Oh, don't ruin it for me, Fallast.

I'm going to take it in stages.

Needs absorbing.

I'm sure I must have got it wrong before

and I'm on the lookout for clues.

What sort of clues?

Gonna try and separate the true clues

and the red herrings.

I'm told, that all eight parts

of the second copy of this film

are out on loan as well.

Perhaps someone else

is also looking for red herrings.

Myriads of simply-structured organisms,

whose ancestors began to appear some,

2,000 million years ago

from among the primitive bacteria

and the first algae.

Protozoa, primitive jellyfish,

sponges, coral polyps, colonisers.

Innumerable individuals

making the first oceans a rich soup,

ripe for the further and more

sophisticated development of life forms.

Oliver, entrez!

- Where is Oswald?

- Uh, he's just working.

Work consoles him, I think.

How did you first know my wife?

I met her at the zoo with my daughter,

when I took to Beta to the insect house

to watch butterflies.

Your wife said they should be let free.

She didn't approve of zoos, did she?

Why is your

daughter called Beta?

Alpha, Beta, Gamma.

I wanted 26 children.

Beta wasn't the first.

The first one died.

I had an infection, mercury poisoning.

Where I come from,

you take mercury to procure an abortion.

There aren't 26 letters in the Greek

alphabet, there's only 23.

- What's Oswald Deuce doing here?

- Watching an apple fade away.

How original!

- "A" is for...

- Angelfish.

- "B" is for...

- Butterfly.

Do you think that's wise?

There are too many of them.

Will they survive the cold?

This zoo is too crowded.

Bit too many staff, for a start.

Haven't you got anything

better to do than watch me?

Venus de Milo's been asking after you.

I cannot stand the idea

of her body rotting away

for nothing.

Or was it for some reason?

Where's this?

It's where I was born.

It's called L'Escargot.

Tell me what happened,

in detail.

You know what happened.

Paula and Griselda

were shopping for china...

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Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway, CBE (born 5 April 1942 in Newport, Wales) is a British film director, screenwriter, and artist. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular. Common traits in his film are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death. more…

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