Three by Peter Greenaway

Three by Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway is best known for the films that followed his 1982 arthouse breakthrough "The Draughtsman’s Contract," and this series includes three of Greenaway’s playful, outlandish, and inventive features.

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Three by Peter Greenaway
  • A Zed And Two Noughts

    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 o...

  • The Falls

    Directed by Peter Greenaway | 239 mins | 1980
    Greenaway’s first feature, an epic mock documentary in 92 parts that catalogs the aftermath of a mysterious “Violent Unknown Event” that has killed many people, and left survivors suffering from symptoms including strange dreams and mutations into bir...

  • The Draughtsman's Contract

    Directed by Peter Greenaway | 104 mins | 1982
    Greenaway’s 1982 arthouse breakthrough, a 17th-century murder mystery in which an aristocratic wife (Janet Suzman) commissions a young, cocksure draughtsman (Anthony Higgins) to sketch her husband’s seemingly idyllic property while he is away—in excha...