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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
France, Netherlands, United Kingdom | 1989 | Peter Greenaway
Set in and around a posh gourmet restaurant owned by a gangster (Michael Gambon) with an unfaithful wife (Helen Mirren), Peter Greenaway’s most notorious movie is a food film that just might make you lose your appetite. Intellectually, though, there’s a lot to chew on. This exploration of the dual natural of man is a banquet of elegantly rendered tableaux peppered with sex, vitriol, cruelty, and stomach-churning violence.
No one under 18 admitted! 35mm color & scope print! 124 min.
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