The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989)

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Directed by

Peter Greenaway

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Richard Bohringer
Richard Borst

Michael Gambon
Albert

Helen Mirren
Georgina

Alan Howard
Michael

Tim Roth
Mitchel

Ciarán Hinds
Cory

Gary Olsen
Spangler

Ewan Stewart
Harris

Written by

Peter Greenaway
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8 years, 3 months ago at Aug 24 10:11

johanlefourbe

To be honest, it has been a while since I have seen this flick and maybe I should check it again at some point. Still, I remember it pretty well. Indeed, I was very young, maybe 14 years old and one of my sister’s best friends brought this movie saying that we should definitely check it out. Well, I had no idea what the damned thing was and I think I wasn’t really mentally prepared for somet... read more

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The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.

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Tags: Drama (12), 1989 (9), Crime (7), UK (6), Murder (6), Food (6), 1980s (6), Cannibalism (5), France (4), Thief (4), Romance (3), Gangster (3), Restaurant (3), Lover (3), Comedy (2), Satire (2), Cook (2), British (2)

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