Özet:

This study approaches with an intermedial analysing of the film of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover filmed by Peter Greenaway in 1989 and the painting of The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1616 painted by Frans Hals which creates the background of the movie in both metaphoric and literal meanings. The painting hanging on the wall right behind of the table where all the main characters play a part in the main venue of the film, restaurant; acts as a keystone to create the universe of the film as both stylistic and narrative. Greenaway who is formalist, takes a stylistic method in mise-en-scene elements as are light, colour, composition, decoration, costume and screening. Therefore, this film analysed with mise-en-scene analysing method. In order to go deeper in the multi-layered meaning structure that the director has built in his film and to provide the requisite cultural background in the purpose of analysing the film, the period in which the work of art was produced is also included in the scope of the studying along with the painting of The Banquet of the Officers of the St George Militia Company in 1616. While the reflection of the aesthetic components of the painting such as light, colour and composition are seen in the mise-en-scene of the film, it is understood that the results of the social, economic, political and artistic life of the 17th century of Netherlands, where the work of art was produced, played an essential role in the creation of the story of the film.