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Article: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.
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- National Review
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- May 14, 1990
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Still, The Handmaid's Tale is only inept and annoying; for true horror, I commend to you Peter Greenaway's latest, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, a film whose detestableness is heralded by its ponderous title. Have you noticed, by the way, the depredations of the ampersand on film titling? It is a dependable harbinger of disaster, as recently in Stanley & Iris, and now in what I'll shorten to CTW&L. Why those ampersands? It wasn't Romeo & Juliet or Crime & Punishment. But, beloved of law firms and typographers, the ampersand has become chic & is here to stay.
But back to Peter Greenaway, a British painter, novelist, and film-maker. His first ...
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