A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)

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Directed by: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Brian Deacon (Oswald), Eric Deacon (Oliver), Andrea Ferreol (Alba Bewick), Agnes Brulet (Beta Bewick), Frances Barber (Venus de Milo), Gerard Thoolen (Van Meegeren), Jim Davidson (Joshua Plate), Joss Ackland (Van Hoyten), Wolf Kahler (Felipe Arc-en-Ciel)
Country: UK; Effed Up British-Irish Movies
Language: English (Optional Eng subs)
Runtime: 01:56:19
Genres: Necro-related, Animals, Small creatures, Body Modification, Siblings, Prostitute character

Plot – Spoilers:
A freak accident involving a swan crashing into a car kills the wives of a couple of zoologists who are also twins. The driver of the car loses her leg, but survives, and the brothers begin visiting her to better understand the events leading up to the accident. One of them starts to get obsessed with the thought of his wife decomposing. His early forays into this involves recording a timelapse video of a rotting apple. Soon he’s able to get his brother involved in the project and they begin capturing the decomposition of animals. Meanwhile, a surgeon has plans for the one-legged woman that includes turning her into characters from Vermeer paintings.

A Zed & Two Noughts is extremely dialogue-driven and if you lose track, you could find yourself bored, given that it’s almost two hours long. But it has beautiful scene and set compositions in keeping with the Renaissance-art angle, and more importantly for us, it has artistic takes on decomposition.

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Aurelia
Aurelia
February 2, 2026 9:32 pm

There’s a Mars Volta song named after this, but I had no idea it’s an effed up movie

jak surf
jak surf
February 2, 2026 12:26 am

cant open movie

Regan MacNeil
Regan MacNeil
February 1, 2026 7:35 am

There’s another movie called “Zoo” and it’s about the ill-fated Mr. Hands. It’d fit right in on this website.

tonyelmono
tonyelmono
January 31, 2026 8:31 am

I felt it important to add that this is an okay movie, just not really a good fit for the majority of dimwits here. Maybe you just already have to be a PG fan. Now I’m feeling bias.

tonyelmono
tonyelmono
January 31, 2026 5:41 am

If you’re going to include a Peter Greenaway movie, why didn’t you pick The cook the thief his wife and her lover? That is a fucked master piece. Do you dumpster dive for the movies here?

darthsinn
darthsinn
January 31, 2026 2:14 am

I have not seen a sourealistic film for a long time…very boring and long. I liked only the interior of the house Alba was living.

Mainlining movies
Mainlining movies
January 30, 2026 7:55 am

If this place is going to put up less than effed up stuff maybe it should include, The Delicate Art of the Rifle, 1996. Availble on super low quality youtube or a better quality rusky stream. Very artsy talky with a healthy punch half-way through. Obviously we would need L-Rons approval.

jelly
jelly
January 29, 2026 6:50 pm

Anything to do with art is a huge nooooooo from I.

xiuxiufan2005
xiuxiufan2005
January 29, 2026 4:14 pm

more greenaway gems PLEASE ill castrate myself 4 you admin

Zed Man
Zed Man
January 28, 2026 2:40 pm

Admin, are you taking the piss?

fred fat
fred fat
January 28, 2026 2:34 am

zed is dead like the cunt he was

Cronenberg
Cronenberg
January 28, 2026 12:57 am

Ah…I haven’t seen this weird and lovely movie since it was new.
Greenaway has made a lot of fine films and I think this is his best!
The cinematography and the open structure makes it a very special viewing experience.
The dialouge is theatrical but it is done with purpose because this isn’t supposed to be believeable. It’s just pure intellectual nonsense – but it’s spectacular and fascinating all the way through.
And the ladies show off some nice bushes…!

Old Mother Hubbard
Old Mother Hubbard
January 27, 2026 11:59 pm

Samuel Beckett’s stage play “Waiting For Godot” gave birth to absurdist tragic-comedy bullshit films like this. It’s made by intellectual snobs who look down on the little people and think how superior they are. When the administrator states in the description “you could find yourself bored” you know you’ll be in for a long 2 hours. If this film ever toured Broadway as a play the beatniks wearing berets with anti-ICE buttons wouldn’t applaud at the finale, they would snap their fingers in unison. If you want to skip the high brow mumbo jumbo dialog and get right to the best part, watch for around 2 minutes at about 22:30 to see Milo’s delicious looking tits. Otherwise, I can’t recommend. I’m going to go straight up the middle with this one and give it just a cunt hair over 2 and a half stars and let me tell you why. Though the dialog is just pure bullshit, the production is quality and Milo’s tits speak for themselves.