The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
When boorish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there every night, scaring away patrons with his crude conduct. His wife, Georgina, is deeply repulsed by him and soon begins an affair with regular guest Michael. Despite their best efforts to keep it secret, Spica discovers the trysts and hatches a terrible revenge.
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Peter Greenaway
Gerrit Martijn
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Having previously watched Greenaway's 'Prospero's Books', basically from the same era, one definitely gets a sense of the auteur, of great visualizing prowess in the Welsh native. I adore watching Helen Mirren from ANY era, but particularly here, in between the young adulthood beauty she displayed in Michael Powell's 'Age of Consent', through the remarkably absurd and audacious 'Caligula', straight to the sophisticated and very dangerous gorgeousness displayed in 'The Comfort of Strangers'. It's great to see any dude who's mean to a beautiful woman get their comeuppance (particularly the wealthy--it offers a sort of 'wish fulfillment' for the 99% of us), and the climax here is one of cinema's most articulate presentation of that phenomenon. It definitely made me wish to see the rest of both Greenaway's movies and of Mirren's performances. Well worth the acquired taste necessary for this sort of delicacy.
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The directors of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover are Peter Greenaway and Gerrit Martijn.
The cast of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover includes Ciarán Hinds as Cory, Janet Henfrey as Alice, Tony Alleff as Troy, Bob Goody as Starkie, Helen Mirren as Georgina Spica, Roger Lloyd Pack as Geoff, Gary Olsen as Spangler, Alex Kingston as Adele, Michael Gambon as Albert Spica, Tim Roth as Mitchel, Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Turpin, Sue Maund as Kitchen Staff, and more.
The duration of The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is 2h 4 mins.
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover was released on 13 Oct 1989.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is listed under Crime and Drama on Fanbiz.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 9.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "Having previously watched Greenaway's 'Prospero's Books', basically from the same era, one definitely gets a sense of the auteur, of great visualizing prowess in the Welsh nativ..."
