Title from disc label. Originally released as a motion picture in 1985. Wide screen (1.66:1) Special features: Peter Greenaway commentary and video introduction (6 minutes); six "decay" sequences; Greenaway shorts: H is for house (1976, 9 minutes), A wlk through H (1978, 41 minutes); theatrical trailer. Andrea Ferreol, Eric Deacon, Brian Deacon.
Summary:
A 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, loses her leg. The two widowers, twin zoologists Oliver and Oswald, fixate on their wives2 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.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1386277696
Locations:
TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)
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