When his cultured and repressed wife Georgina (Mirren) becomes magnetically attracted to a solitary diner in the restaurant, the two.

The film is at once funny and horrific, and those who are not used to Greenaway's peculiar style might be even disgusted or shocked however, one might mention Sacha Vierny's brilliant camerawork, Jean-Paul Gaultier's gaudily stylized costumes, and Michael Nyman's somber, pulsating music, which will haunt the viewer long after the film's end. The thief, Albert Spica, (Gambon) is a gangster, repugnant and boorish, who holds court at the same table in his opulent restaurant every night surrounded by his lackeys (Tim Roth and the late Ian Dury included). Though less cerebral than Greenaway's other films, featuring deadly passions reminiscent of Jacobean revenge tragedies of the early 17th century, the picture still offers the director's usual ironic and paradoxical comments on the relations between eating and sex, love and death. 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 the silent permission of the cook ( Richard Bohringer). Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover, The (Beyond Genres) Rating: R18+ Consumer Advice: Occasional graphic violence. 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. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come. For this, his seventh soundtrack for director Peter Greenaway, Nyman deftly. 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. Information page about The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (starring Helen Mirren, Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon and more) on American. At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover Original Soundtrack Review.

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