Saturday, August 17, 2024

THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER (1989)






















Directed by: Peter Greenaway
Starring: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth, Ciaran Hinds, Gary Olsen, Ewan Stewart, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Liz Smith, Ian Dury, Diane Langton, Paul Russell, Emer Gillespie, Ron Cook, Alex Kingston, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Bob Goody, Flavia Brilli

124 minutes
(NC-17 - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, gore, graphic nudity)

PLOT:
The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, color coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed, but brutally uncompromising modern fable.

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