A Zed & Two Noughts [Blu-ray]

Love Peter Greenway movies and this one is up at the top of my list. A must have for any library that's filled with brilliant creative solutions to our ordinary life situations. This movie always brings more imagination into my world.

Stripes, bars, tigers, and police tape break up scenes that look like Dutch masterpieces in motion. EVERYTHING in this film is deliberate and meaningful, in contrast to life, or the view thereof it offers, anyway. Everything shown or heard in this film can be interpreted in any number of ways and all of them are intriguing. The characters are way out there and yet the seem to be actualizations of things we've all contemplated, only abstracted and made ridiculously absurd. The composition and lighting all seems bizarre and unworldly, throwing frequent visual homages to Vermeer, whose work plays a role in the film.The narrative revolves around zookeeper twins who become obsessed with the significance, or lack there of, of death after the deaths of their wives in a car wreck involving a woman who looses a leg. The twins fall in love with the now-unhinged amputee as they become increasingly unhinged, created time lapse videos of rotting animals and munching glass from the car wreck. Plots abound around them: the intrigues of mad zookeepers, a doctor who seeks to make life like art, and a woman who employs her wiles to make the zoo her playground. All this as the narrative reels towards its inevitable (inevitable in a Greenaway film, anyway) conclusion.The film's one weakness, if it can be called one, is that it is rather inaccessible. After multiple viewings, the whole picture eventually comes together and I have appreciated it more every time. If you're looking to just kick back for a bit and shut your brain down, though, this film will be an awful drudgery and seem rather pointless. Maybe that's what greenaway is getting at, though.

One of my all-time favorite movies. Ok, it's a little bizzare, but hello, "Greenaway." Not for everyone, but just right for me!

Peter Greenaway is the goat

Truculenta historia muy retorcida...

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am i to review the product or the art? i've loved this film for decades. the art and extras with the product are lovely. this film was my introduction to all things Greenaway. wide do yonder gates sweep.

If you are a fan of Peter Greenaway, then you must have this movie in your library.

Ah well. I first saw this when I were a young'un and seem to recall I greatly enjoyed the extreme bizarreness of it.Consequently I was extremely disappointed when I attempted to sit through it in one go and started to find things like loading and unloading the dishwasher and making a sandwich and a cuppa were far more attractive options.Maybe I'll give it another try at some point but I won't be going out of my way to do it in the near future.

Pleasure for the eyes and ears as always with Greenaway. One of his best!

Greenaway's "flawed creation" exerts an enduring fascination, adn Sacha Viernay's cinematography is jaw-dropping. Suffice it to say I own this on VHS, DVD and now blu-ray.The blu-ray print is crisp and the colour palette is much improved over the DVD, but its not by any means a full digital restoration (such as BfI's Draughtsman's Contract print). Sadly limitations of blu-ray mean the interactive menus of the BfI DVD are replaced with static ones, which is a shame, but the additional extras compensate to a degree.Somebody give PG a lavish budget to remake this film as it could have been!

Cinema at its' best; following the storyline is half the fun. Loved Greenwood's other films but had missed this on C4 all those years ago. Whilst not into decomposing corpses it is still a riveting watch

and always it will remain.Something of an artwank like all his movies, this one is special to me.My love of his 'Nyman Movies' continues, both of them have strayed from their 80s brilliance.Greenaway's still to impress me but Nyman has the wonderful 'Gattaca'. Brilliant.