# The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

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**Runtime**: 124 min
**Genres**: Crime, Drama
**Directed by**: Peter Greenaway
**Written by**: Peter Greenaway
**Starring**: Michael Gambon, Richard Bohringer, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth, Ciarán Hinds

> *Lust...Murder...Dessert. Bon Appetit!*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

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.

**Mood tags**: sexy, surreal, unhinged

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