Philm Club series: A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)

Type: 
Film Screening
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Zrinyi u. 14
Room: 
412
Friday, October 15, 2010 - 6:00pm
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Date: 
Friday, October 15, 2010 - 6:00pm to 8:30pm

The CEU  Department of Philosophy cordially invites you to the next screening
of its Philm Club series:

A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)

Directed by Peter Greenaway

English, 115 min.

When the wives of Oswald and Oliver Deuce are killed in a head-on collision with a swan, the twins begin to experiment with time-lapse photography of dead animals and cultivate a relationship with Alba Bewick, the accident's sole survivor. Having lost one leg, Alba decides to lose the other for symmetry's sake, while the boys yearn to be surgically reunited with the help of a shady surgeon who stages lavish re-enactments of Vermeer paintings in his spare time. Meanwhile, Venus de Milo is telling dirty stories for a small fee, and animal corpses are turning up with improbable frequency.

No movie has ever been less abashed by its mythic, scientific, aesthetic, and metaphysical concerns, here asserting their presence in every inch of the production design and every preposterous plot point. The characters in Zed aren't convincingly human, but neither are they meant to be. Greenaway is exclusively interested in the details of their anatomy and in assigning them symbolic roles.

(Nathan Lee, The Village Voice)

Go to the link below for an introduction by the director and some reviews.

Friday, 15 October, 6:00 p.m.
Zrinyi 14/ room 412

  The Philm Club aims at screening and discussing movies that raise
philosophically relevant issues in accessible as well as entertaining ways.   Find out more on the club's blog: http://philmclub.wordpress.com/