The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

The thief and his wife dine regularly at the restaurant of a taciturn cook.

One evening the first of ten that structure the film she is drawn to a modest and reserved man the complete opposite of her husband’s coarse and violent nature.

The two consummate their desire in the restaurant restroom but the affair is bound to be discovered. The husband sets out on a brutal path of revenge against the cook while the woman’s own revenge will be cold calculated and deadly.

Peter Greenaway’s astonishing film is a total assault on the senses and the mind a hypnotic succession of colorful grotesque and sensual tableaux that overwhelm the eye unsettle the thoughts and linger long in the heart.