The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Directed by
Peter Greenway
Starring
Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Richard Bohringer, Tim Roth
Duration
124 min.
Year
1989

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.

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