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...FAST DOES a woman decompose?" is the first line in A Zed and Two Noughts, and the next two hours of this repulsive film are spent exploring every metaphoric, artistic and physiological aspect of that question...
...movie is a series of stupid riddles like this, passed off as remarkable insights into the soul of man. Zed indeed takes place at a zoo, where two brothers work as animal behaviorists. Writer and director Peter Greenaway uses this setting as an excuse to pursue noxious surrealist puzzles, revolving around such contradistinctive concepts as black/white, death/life, healing/torture...
...ZED Associates...
Like eager quiz-show contestants, Zed and Boorman are not bashful about flaunting their education. Bolstered by his psychic seminar. Zed drops quotes from Ecdesiastes, T.S. Eliot and Nietzsche, whose idea of a superman he now suggests. For himself, Boorman borrows -and cunningly acknowledges-a crucial image from L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz. The trouble is that none of these sources is assimilated; they are like footnotes without a source. Fortunately there are some bright intervals of self-deprecatory humor that lighten the occasional pomposity of the material...
...never specified, but the actors all have one variety or other of English accents, and the film draws much of its bleak, primitive beauty from the Irish countryside where it was shot. The costumes are comic-book eccentric, and fun: the women dress in tie-dyed gossamer, while Zed bounds around mostly in a red loincloth and bandoleers. Boorman gets good work from his cast. Besides Connery, and a fine assortment of character actors, there are the excellent Charlotte Rampling as a sort of stern, fairy-princess scientist; and Sara Kestelman, of the Royal Shakespeare Company, making a welcome debut...