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Apr 6, 1990 · With Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard. At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.
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- Crime, Drama
- Peter Greenaway
- 1990-04-06
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English gangster Albert Spica has taken over the high-class Le Hollandais restaurant, which is managed by French chefRichard Boarst. Spica makes nightly appearances at the restaurant with his retinue of thugs. His oafish behavior causes frequent confrontations with the staff and his own customers, whose patronage he loses but whose money he seems n...
Writing
Peter Greenaway has said that the Jacobean play 'Tis Pity She's a Whoreprovided him with the main template for his screenplay.
Music
Michael Nyman's score prominently incorporated his 1985 composition Memorial.
Design
Jean-Paul Gaultier designed the costumes. Italian chef Giorgio Locatelliprepared the food, used as props. Notably, as characters move from location to location throughout the film, their costumes change colors to match. Outside the restaurant is blue, the kitchen is green, the dining room red, the restrooms white, and the book depository orange/brown. Greenaway stated this changing of colors represents how characters move between and inhabit each different world.
Box office
The film debuted at the 1989 Toronto International Film Festival and was released on 13 October 1989 in London on two screens. It grossed over $500,000 in London.During its opening week in Paris it grossed $158,500. It earned £640,213 in the UK.Miramax acquired the rights for $500,000, and released the film in New York on 6 April 1990. It was Greenaway's first film to be released fully in the US since The Draughtsman's Contract in 1982.It grossed $7.7 million in the US.
Versions
The film's original running time was 124 minutes. Due to the content, the MPAA gave Miramax a choice of either an X rating or go unrated (adults only) for theatrical release. Unrated was chosen in light of the X rating being more associated with pornographic films. Two versions of the film were released on VHSin the 1990s. One was an R-rated cut running 95 minutes (mainly for large video store chains); the other was the original version.
Critical reception
The film received generally positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, it holds an 86% rating based on 49 reviews, with an average rating of 7.60/10. The site's consensus states: "This romantic crime drama may not be to everyone's taste, but The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is an audacious, powerful film." The film received a score of 62 on Metacritic based on reviews from 23 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Timesgave the film f...
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is the twelfth album release by Michael Nyman and the ninth to feature the Michael Nyman Band. The album includes the first commercially released recording of Nyman's composition "Memorial". There is some music not included on the soundtrack album: the love theme for Michael and Georgina, which is "Fish Bea...
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover at IMDbThe Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover at Box Office MojoThe Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover. Academy Award-nominees Tim Roth and Helen Mirren star in this exotic modern fable about infidelity. Acclaimed director Peter Greenaway directs, weaving a story of a woman (Mirren), bored of her crime boss husband (Gambon), who starts having an affair with a quiet bookseller (Howard) at her husband's ...
Georgina Spica. Alan Howard. Michael. Tim Roth. Mitchel. Watchlist. When churlish mobster Albert Spica (Michael Gambon) acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly,...
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