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Drowning by Numbers
Why this pick
Its numbered games, deadpan cruelty and meticulously arranged tableaux extend the same pleasure in systems, morbid comedy and artificial visual order.
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MOVIE1985 1h 55m GBR
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Why this pick
Its obsessive protagonist, architectural framing and clinical attention to the body make it a more melancholy companion to the zoological fixations of A Zed & Two Noughts.
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Why this pick
A formal puzzle built from repeated compositions, visual clues and dryly theatrical behaviour; it shares Greenaway's fascination with looking, patterns and controlled artifice.
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Taxidermia
Why this pick
A boldly stylised, deadpan grotesque about bodies, appetite and transformation, with the same willingness to turn biological ugliness into elaborate visual provocation.
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The Bothersome Man
Why this pick
Its sterile, absurdist social world and coolly composed surrealism echo the original's detached humour and interest in orderly surfaces concealing existential rot.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Twin zoologists Oswald and Oliver Deuce (Brian Deacon and Eric Deacon) are at work studying the behaviour of animals at a zoo, when their wives are killed in a car accident involving a large swan which crashes through the car windscreen. The woman who was driving the car, Alba Bewick (Andréa Ferréol), is not killed, but has a leg amputated.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Joss Ackland
Van Hoyten
Jim Davidson
Joshua Plate
David Attenborough
Himself - Documentary Narrator (voice)
Brian Deacon
Oswald Deuce
Wolf Kahler
Felipe Arc-en-Ciel
Frances Barber
Venus de Milo
Eric Deacon
Oliver Deuce
Geoffrey Palmer
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