The Wafer-Thin Mint (A review of The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover)

You will never see such a beautiful film about the ugliness of the world as The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. Peter Greenaway has long been dissatisfied with cinema being strictly a storytelling medium, and here has constructed the first attempt to capture the horror of a Hieronymus Bosch painting. Remember those school trips to the Tate Modern, or the National Portrait Gallery? There was at least one watercolour, or sculpture, or statue, or piece of modern art that caught your attention because of how disturbing it was, the kind you couldn't take your eyes off of.

That's this film in a nutshell.