Dark Comedy August:
The Cook, The Thief, The Wife and Her Lover

Monday, August 17
Admission: Free, $10 minimum
Showtime: 8 & 10:30pm
reservations are recommended

Peter Greenaway executed a baroque and absudist aesthetic that few directors have approached before or since. He is sui generis, thank you very much.

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover stars Helen Mirren (pre-Dame). The costumes were by Jean-Paul Gaultier. And the bathroom scene is an extraordinary cinematic moment of light.

A very concise summary from IMDB...
The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.