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Two legs look so good together, don't you think? A masterpiece of modern cinema, A Zed And Two Noughts is Peter Greenaway's beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. In a horrific automobile swam accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo, two women die and a third, Alba, loses her leg. The two widowers, twin zoologists Oliver and Oswald (Eric and Brian Deacon, in roles originally offered to the Quay Brothers), fixate on their wives' bodies and slowly become obsessed with evolution and decomposition - even going as far as to meticulously craft exquisitely morbid time lapsed films of decaying creatures. The plot thickens when a mad surgeon schemes to use Alba as a subject in his experiments with animal symmetry and Vermeer homage.
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