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Product Description ------------------- "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. The film opens with an automobile-swan accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo; two women die and a third, Alba (Andrea Ferreol), 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 meticulously crafting exquisitely morbid time-lapsed films of decaying corpses and creatures. Meanwhile, a mad surgeon plots to use Alba as a subject in his experiments with animal symmetry and Vermeer homage. With this follow-up to his accled The Draughtsman's Contract, Greenaway intensifies his already striking visual style by collaborating with legendary French cinematographer Sacha Vierny to create a masterpiece of motivated light. Full of surprises and magnificent conundrums, A Zed and Two Noughts is a perversely comic and teasing treat for the mind and senses. SPECIAL FEATURES - Restored anamorphic transfer, created from Hi-Def elements - Peter Greenaway commentary and video introduction - Behind-the-scenes footage from ?O, Zoo!, by Philip Hoffman - The complete "Decay" sequences - Snail sketches by Peter Greenaway - English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired - Original theatrical trailer Review ------ "The boldest and arguably the best of Peter Greenaway's fiction features.... This elegant puzzle also involves amputees, painting, a menage a trois, and decomposing animals--along with many other things which are intricately interrelated thanks to Greenaway's icy brilliance. Definitely a one-of-a-kind movie." --Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader "Exquisitely directed and photographed.... Well worthwhile for those willing to be challenged." --Leonard Maltin, Cinemania "As usual with Greenaway, the ideas are large, endless and perverse; and they are teased out with the exquisite formal perfection of a court minuet. Moreover he frames, colors and shoots with a top dollar precision. A film with all the cool, intellectual thrill of the Kasparov-Karpov game." --Time Out (London)