A Zed and Two Noughts / The Falls: Two Films by Peter Greenaway
A Zed and Two Noughts / The Falls: Two Films by Peter Greenaway
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Two-disc set includes: A Zed And Two Noughts (1985)Twin brothers-Oswald and Oliver Deuce (Brian Deacon and Eric Deacon)-who work for the city zoo and whose wives are both killed in an auto accident enter into a strange affair with Alba Bewick (Andréa Ferréol), a woman who was injured in the crash. But the siblings' morbid obsessions and a secret in their past threatens to overwhelm them, in writer/director Peter Greenaway's haunting drama co-starring Frances Barber, Joss Ackland, Jim Davidson. 115 min. C/Rtg: R The Falls (1980)Provocative and bizarre, this epic "documentary" is the product of renegade director Peter Greenaway's wild imagination, chronicling the effects of the "Violent Unknown Event," a fictional phenomenon, on 92 innocent people who survive only to become obsessed with dreams of water and mysterious identification with birds. 195 min. C/Rtg: NR Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.