(Movie quote) - "So, tell me - Is a zebra a white animal with black stripes, or is it a black animal with white stripes?"

Even though I definitely found this 1985, British, "art" film to be something of a "hit'n'miss" production, it was its very striking camera-work by French cinematographer, Sacha Vierny, that certainly helped to elevate it to a position that set it well-beyond the realm of being considered just purely mundane entertainment.

Surreal, eccentric and bizarre (and, yes, at times, quite puzzling) - "A Zed And 2 Noughts" definitely had me wondering, often enough, what kind of a curve director Peter Greenaway was going to hurl at me next with this weird and somewhat disturbing tale of obsession with decaying flesh and the amputation of body parts.

Certainly not a film to please everyone (and certainly not a film with a gripping plot-line) - I, for one, thought "A Zed And 2 Noughts" was well-worth a view simply for the freakish biology lesson that it quite cleverly wedged into its wacky, little story (all at no extra cost).

ZOO. An absurdist, dadaist film for viewers who can reflect on the spoken words (the script is dense with odd factoids), the minimalist music, the visuals (electrical lighting, red hats, black and white fauna, twins and Vermeer paintings) and the effect of time-lapse photography on both growth and decay. Greenaway's collaboration with cinematographer Sacha Vierny and composer Michael Nyman is a gift for film viewers. The film brings to the fore some of the absurdist common strands between two filmmakers: Peter Greenaway and Raoul Ruiz.