The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is a 1989 film release written and directed by Peter Greenaway starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren and Alan Howard in the titular roles. The film's graphic scatological, violent and nude scenes, as well as its lavish cinematography and formalism were noted at the time of its release.
The battered wife of a loathsome gangster has an affair with a man she meets at her husband's high-cla...
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is a 1989 film release written and directed by Peter Greenaway starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren and Alan Howard in the titular roles. The film's graphic scatological, violent and nude scenes, as well as its lavish cinematography and formalism were noted at the time of its release.
The battered wife of a loathsome gangster has an affair with a man she meets at her husband's high-class restaurant, with gruesome consequences.
English gangster Albert Spica (Michael Gambon) has taken over the high-class La Hollandais Restaurant, run by French chef Richard Borst (Richard Bohringer). Spica makes nightly appearances at the restaurant with his retinue of thugs. His oafish behavior causes frequent confrontations with the staff and his own customers, whose patronage he loses, but whose money he seems not to miss.
Forced to accompany Spica is his reluctant, well-bred wife, Georgina (Helen Mirren), who soon catches the eye of a...
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