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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
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NC17,2hrs 3min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1989
Director:
Peter Greenaway
Starring:
Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren  ...more
Synopsis: This is probably Peter Greenaway's most famous (or infamous) film, which first shocked audiences at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and then on both sides of the Atlantic. A gang leader (Michael Gambon), accompanied by his wife (Helen Mirren) and his associates, entertains himself every night in a fancy French restaurant that he has recently bought. Having tired of her sadistic, boorish husband, the wife finds herself a lover (Alan Howard) and makes love to him in the restaurant's coziest places with ... Full Synopsis
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Tom Wiener, AMG Review
Filmmaker Peter Greenaway's most notorious film in a career marked by audacity, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover includes scenes of intense and shocking brutality and humiliation, fevered sexual encounters, and a final act of forced cannibalism. But what is most striking about the film is its visual style. Shot by the late, legendary Sacha Vierny in glorious widescreen compositions (this ... Full Review
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Richard Bohringer
Richard Borst, the Cook
Michael Gambon
Albert Spica, the Thief
Helen Mirren
Georgina Spica, the Wife
Alan Howard
Michael, the Lover
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