The always elliptical Peter Greenaway once again creates a beautiful film-as-puzzle. The tale begins when a car wreck involving a rare swan kills the wife of a doctor (who has a twin brother, also a doctor). The brothers then form an unusual and strangely close relationship with the woman who was driving the car, now an amputee. Meanwhile, they organize elaborate studies on the decomposition of animals. It's all very beautiful to look at and makes a great companion piece to Cronenberg's 'Dead Ringers'.

DVD Features:

Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
(unspecified) - English
Subtitles - English - Closed Captioned
Additional Release Material:
Featurette: "Six 'Decay' Sequences"
Behind the Scenes: Making Of
Audio Commentary: Peter Greenaway - Director
Trailers: Theatrical Trailer

Andrea Ferreol: 
Brian Deacon: British Actor
Eric Deacon: British Actor/TV Writer
Frances Barber: British Actress
Joss Ackland: British Actor

Peter Greenaway: British Director/Screenwriter

Michael Nyman: Film composer

"...[The filmmakers] produce so many remarkably composed and lit frames that the film is a joy to behold. Their model is Vermeer, and they often capture some of that 17th-Century Dutch painter's eerie tranquility, stillness and perfectly balanced depth..."