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Apr 6, 1990 · The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover: Directed by Peter Greenaway. With Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard. At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is a 1989 crime drama art film written and directed by Peter Greenaway, starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren and Alan Howard in the title roles.
When churlish mobster Albert Spica (Michael Gambon) acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners.
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The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
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.
Now Playing: The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover - Babies. Starring: Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Michael Gambon, Tim Roth, Richard Bohringer. Albert lectures his men and Georgina on the makings of a proper diet, making sure to grope her breasts and embarrass her as much as possible.
A barbaric crime boss, accompanied by his wife and associates, entertains himself every night in a fancy French restaurant that he has recently bought. Having tired of her sadistic, boorish husband, the wife engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals.
Apr 6, 1990 · The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant. Peter Greenaway. Director, Screenplay. Reviews.
At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant the cook, a thief, his wife, and her lover all come together, and they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder, and revenge.
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