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Ultimately, the Deuce brothers' obsession with decay leads them to the top of the food chain, and to a complex life-and-death negotiation with Alba herself. The brothers' project seems the only possible emotional investment for either of them, so Alba offers herself as the final specimen to be photographed in its decay.
It begins with a car accident at a zoo, where two women are killed when their vehicle collides with a pregnant swan. These women are twins who were in turn married to a couple of twin zoologists, Oliver and Oswald Deuce.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Peter Greenaway
- 1990-05-25
See All Cast & Crew. Frances Barber. Venus de Milo. Joss Ackland. Van Hoyten. Brian Deacon. Oswald Deuce. A Zed & Two Noughts, directed by Peter Greenaway, follows twin zoologists who are profoundly affected by the death of their wives in a car accident.
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. — <P.M.Laws@education.leeds.ac.uk>. "A Zed and ...
Sep 10, 2022 · The roles of Oliver and Oswald were originally offered to the Quay brothers, who previously appeared in The Falls. They demurred, but appear uncredited in one of the film’s many mirroring tableaux playing cards. A Zed and Two Noughts screens September 10, 11, and 15 on 35mm at Metrograph.
A Zed & Two Noughts is a 1985 film written and directed by Peter Greenaway. This film was Greenaway's first collaboration with cinematographer Sacha Vierny , who went on to shoot virtually all of Greenaway's work in the 1980s and 1990s, until Vierny's death.
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Oliver and Oswald Deuce are identical twins, although they don’t really look alike when the film starts. Their wives are killed in a car crash when a white swan escapes from a nearby zoo and collides with the vehicle.
