A Zed And Two Noughts
Classic Cinema
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1h 56m
Directed by Peter Greenaway | 115 mins | 1985
After a freak accident involving a swan leaves two women dead and a third—Andrea Ferréol’s Alba—with just one leg, the twin zoologist widowers of the deceased become obsessed with decomposition, experimenting on animals and crafting time-lapse films of decaying flesh. A queasily comic meditation on sex and death.
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