A Zed & Two Noughts and The Falls: Two Films by Peter Greenaway (Blu-ray)

Directed by : Peter Greenaway
Available Date : 06/20/2023
Release Year : 1985 / 1980
Running Time : 116 / 194
UPC : 738329262655
Country : U.K.
Language: English
Genre : Drama
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Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber are proud to present two of Peter Greenaway’s crowning achievements in this captivating two-disc set.

A Zed & Two Noughts (1985) is Peter Greenaway’s beautifully disturbing and darkly humorous take on erotic obsession and death. In a horrific automobile-swan accident in front of the Rotterdam Zoo, two women die and a third, Alba (Andrea Ferréol), 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 to meticulously craft exquisitely morbid time-lapsed films of decaying creatures. The plot thickens when a mad surgeon schemes to use Alba as a subject in his experiments with animal symmetry and Vermeer homage. Full of surprises and magnificent conundrums, A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS is a perversely comic and teasing treat for the mind and senses.

The Falls (1980) is arguably the most significant film of Peter Greenaway’s prolific career. Shot as a pseudo-documentary, this magnum opus dazzlingly details 92 case histories of people who have been affected by the VUE (Violent Unknown Event)—a mysterious, apocalyptic phenomenon related to birds, flying, and bizarre invented languages.

Product Extras :

Disc 1
-Peter Greenaway commentary and video introduction (6 minutes)
-Greenaway Shorts: H Is for House (1976, 9 minutes), A Walk Through H (1978, 41 minutes)
-Theatrical Trailer

Disc 2
-Vertical Features Remake (1978, 44 minutes)
-Video pieces on The Falls and Vertical Features Remake created by Greenaway

Publish Date : 2023-05-23
  • Peter Greenaway - Director
  • Andrea Ferréol - Actor
  • Eric Deacon - Actor
  • Brian Deacon - Actor
  • Peter Westley - Actor
  • Aad Wirtz - Actor
  • Michael Murray - Actor

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