If you loved Performance, try The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

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Performance

1970 · dir. Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell

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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

1989 · dir. Peter Greenaway

What they share

Theyboth carry the surreal mood tag, and they sit in Crime / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Performance, 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.

If you loved Performance, try The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Performance

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

What they share

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

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