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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Lust...Murder...Dessert. Bon Appetit!
Lust...Murder...Dessert. Bon Appetit!
Crime, Drama - 1989
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
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When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners. His wife, Georgina, is especially disgusted by him, and soon begins an affair with regular guest Michael. Despite their best efforts to keep it secret, Spica learns about their trysts, and he plots a terrible revenge.
Director:
,
Peter Greenaway
Cast:
,
Alan Howard
,
Richard Bohringer
,
Ewan Stewart
,
Tim Roth
,
Michael Gambon
,
Liz Smith
,
Ciarán Hinds
,
Helen Mirren
,
Gary Olsen

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Details

Runtime:
124 min
Release date:
13 Oct 1989
Country:
FR, GB, NL
Languages:
English
Budget:
$2,300,000
Revenue:
$7,724,701
Awards:
7 wins & 11 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Albert is one of the ugliest characters ever brought to the screen. Ignorant, over-bearing and violent, it's a gloriously rich performance by Gambon.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
18 Oct 2008
rotten:
For a Jacobean-style drama about deadly emotions, the film lacks passion; only in the final half-hour, with Michael Nyman's funereal music supplying a welcome gravity, does it at last exert a stately power.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
A work so intelligent and powerful that it evokes our best emotions and least civil impulses, so esthetically brilliant that it expands the boundaries of film itself.
– Caryn James,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
It doesn't simply make a show of being uncompromising -- it is uncompromised in every single shot from beginning to end.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Greenaway, the bemused, coolly ironic truth-teller, has painted a cruel portrait for a cruel time.
– Hal Hinson,
Washington Post,
1 Jan 2000
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