In Peter Greenaway's 8-1/2 Women (1999) a woman's death propels a bereaved widower and his son into carnal questing via a harem of idiosyncratic ladies. Similarly 1985's A Zed and Two Noughts follows the Deuce brothers zoologists and former Siamese twins who lose their wives in a bizarre collision--a great swan crashes into a car driven down Swann's Way by one Alba Bewick (translates as "white swan"). The brothers become obsessed with photographing and measuring decay ("by degrees of grief") from Apple to Zebra and equally obsessed with voluptuous Alba who having lost one leg in the wreck later has the other removed... perhaps for the sake of symmetry. Greenaway's funny gruesome gorgeous "zoo" also features hooker Venus di Milo arbiter of the monetary value of everything; an amputation-happy surgeon who'd like to make Alba fit into a Vermeer painting; a sinister Phantom of the Zoo who offs black-and-white animals; and other assorted often twinned exotics.System Requirements:Running Time: 115 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 031398217619 Manufacturer No: 21761
