A Zed & 2 Noughts (1985) review

Typically skewed view of death and decomposition by Greenaway, who doesn't make films with 'plots' but instead works with set pieces, imagery and intellectual mind games and puns to create, in this case, an exquisite, tongue-in-cheek look at the origin – and purpose – of life. Two scientist brothers lose their wives in a bizarre car accident and are inconsolable; they film, in stop motion, the rotting of animal carcasses and watch countless hours of film on the evolution of man from tiny organism onward to make sense of it all (they are willingly seduced by their wives' driver, who lost her leg in the accident). It's a little meandering, but the hypnotic use of music and editing rhythms (as well as an all-consuming interest in symmetry) kept me fascinated; some may view the approach as being pompous, but I found humor and whimsy in it all.