![]() In any case, they're funnier than the movie, though they never suggest the comic nonsense of Mr. The extensive program notes, which the producers have supplied for reviewers, are possibly a put-on. It's pretentious, humorless and, worst of all, more boring than a retrospective devoted to television weather forecasts delivered over a 30-year period at 11 P.M., Eastern standard time. ''A Zed and Two Noughts'' isn't really absurdist. in Alice Tully Hall as part of the New York Film Festival.įor some time I've been an admirer of Peter Greenaway's absurdist shorts and features: ''Act of God'' (interviews with people who have been struck by lightning), ''The Falls'' (three hours of interviews with people who have survived some mysterious ''violent unknown act'' that seems to be turning them into birds) and the comparatively conventional Restoration comedy-mystery, ''The Draughtsman's Contract.'' ![]() ''A Zed and Two Noughts'' will be shown today at 3 P.M. It contains observations about the origin of life, symmetry and the fact that many important things, such as the gristle that separates the nostrils, don't have names. The dialogue accompanying all this is pithy and not terribly riveting. ![]() Someone asks, ''Is a zebra a black horse with white stripes, or a white horse with black stripes?''Īlso seen are a man cutting out what appear to be paper dolls in a screening room, and a woman who wears a big red hat and recalls the figure of Vermeer's wife. There are occasional shots of a dead swan disintegrating (in stop-motion photographs), also of a dead zebra being devoured by maggots. ![]() She says that ''a one-legged woman is queen in the land of the legless.'' As a result of the accident, Alba has one leg amputated by a mad doctor, called Van Meergeren (as in Hans Van Meergeren, the Vermeer art forger).Īlba, now one-legged, falls in love with identical twins, Oswald and Oliver Deuce (Brian Deacon and Eric Deacon) and takes them as lovers. It opens when a white swan, perhaps in pursuit of a Leda, crashes into the windshield of a car driven by Alba Bewick (pronounced as if it were ''Buick''), played by Andrea Ferreol. Peter Greenaway's ''Zed and Two Noughts,'' which is a fancy way of spelling ''zoo,'' takes place partly in a zoo, partly outside a zoo and partly at some distance from a zoo. ![]()
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