This thoroughly modern film starts with a swan crashing headlong into a car and killing two pregnant women and severely injuring the woman driving the vehicle. The husbands of these two women, Oswald and Oliver, are twins and, in an obsession with death and symmetry, start a bizarre journey with the car accident survivor, now disabled by the amputation of her leg. Amid this journey as with all Greenaway films, you meet some pretentious and strange folks, including a mad doctor who's advice to the amputee is to amputate the surviving leg so it doesn't feel lonely. You'll meet a women obsessed with zebras and a zoologist obsessed with time-lapse photographing larger and larger animals as they decay ... including, eventually, himself and his brother.
A Zed and Two Noughts is a feast for the eyes and senses and while you see how the film will end from miles away, the sheer audacity of it all warrants my rating of 7 out of 10.
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