The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

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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Peter Greenaway directed The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover in 1989. See Peter Greenaway's full filmography, where to start with Peter Greenaway, or where to go after you've seen everything by Peter Greenaway.

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover was released in 1989 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 124 minutes.