Synopsis:
Twin zoologists Oliver and Oswald Deuce (Eric and Brian Deacon), become obsessed by death and decay of different species (mostly animals), since their wives were killed in a freak swan-related car crash. The sole survivor, a woman called Alba Bewick (Andréa Ferréol), loses a leg in the accident and becomes entangled in the twins' strange experiments.
My Review:
This movie is an artistic masterpiece. The lighting and photography is beautiful, in spite of the deranged things we are seeing onscreen. There is a fascinating beauty to the decay sequences. I've seen two other Greenaway movies (The Pillow Book is among my favorite movies of all time; the other one I've seen is The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover) and this one has all the elements that I liked about the other two. The plot is disturbing but the way it is presented visually is haunting and appealing.
The subject of the movie is grief and the extremes to which a person can go to cope with it. Also I believe it tries to show that life and death has no explanation, that it is random and chaotic.
I recommend this movie to people who are interested in naturalism and the works of Johannes Vermeer (there is another movie which includes him and his work called Girl with a Pearl Earring by Peter Webber and starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson from 2003).
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