If you loved Drowning by Numbers, try The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Peter Greenaway, and they both carry the surreal mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Drowning by Numbers, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is

You feast in a candlelit hall where a thug bullies the room into silence. Between bingeing steak and insults he barely lets you swallow your wine, you notice his wife’s stolen glances at the bookish diner across the room and then you’re slipping into an attic with him, leaving lips of rouge on a napkin. Peter Greenaway traps the era’s vulgarity inside ornate frames and lets the silence scream.

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