On The Silver Globe fuses restored original footage with documentary content to forge an unforgettably bizarre blend of image and sound, so strangely otherworldly it might as well have been beamed in from a parallel universe. 

Opera director Patrice Chereau fashions a sumptuous, sensuous and flamboyantly punk fable that explodes the history book in bloody shards of intrigue and passion.

With colour-changing BDSM-inspired costumes by Jean-Paul Gaultier, an instantly memorable Michael Nyman score, and luridly lavish cinematography by Sacha Vierny, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover remains one of director Greenaway's most singularly blazing and controversial achievements.