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Peter Greenaway’s decadent masterpiece (film: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover – Peter Greenaway, 1989)

“The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover” concludes the series of films made by Peter Greenaway in the 80s and is probably the best of them all. None of the previous films written and directed by the painter-turned-filmmaker … Continue reading

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a baroque mystery (film: The Draughtsman’s Contract – Peter Greenaway, 1982)

In 1982, when he made ‘The Draughtsman’s Contract‘, Peter Greenaway was 40 years old. You could say it was a debut in a way, as it was his first feature length fiction film. And yet Greenaway was already a mature … Continue reading

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