The Falls
Screening on Film
Directed by Peter Greenaway.
UK, 1980, 35mm, color and b&w, 185 min.
UK, 1980, 35mm, color and b&w, 185 min.
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover filmmaker Peter Greenaway’s rarely seen first feature is a brilliant, Nabokov-like synthesis of narrative and experimental techniques. Greenaway is monumentally ambitious: ninety-two characters, all of whose surnames begin with Fall, are among the nineteen million victims of a catastrophe called "the Violent Unknown Event."
