This nightly game continues until the couple is discovered, setting up numerous acts of unspeakable revenge from both sides. Not for everyone, but for those elect few, essential. While the Thief humiliates everyone at his table, he fails to notice when his Wife begins a torrid affair with a quiet customer (the Lover, Alan Howard) sitting across the restaurant. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover is well-written, with dark humor and irony peppering nearly every conversation and monologue. Nudity, torture, rotting meat, and Tim Roth (Reservoir Dogs) at his sleaziest all contribute the atmosphere of decay and excess. Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is the kind of film that’s just breathtakingly immaculate in every possible way from a brilliant screenplay, to absolutely gorgeous set design and costuming, elegant cinematography, and amazingly impassioned performances that all lead to something completely delectable and. Clothing (by avant-garde designer Jean-Paul Gaultier) changes color as the characters move from room to room. This disturbing, visually audacious black comedy is Greenaway’s unholiest masterpiece. A vile, gluttonous thief (Michael Gambon, The Singing Detective) spews hate and abuse at a restaurant run by a stoic French cook (Richard Bohringer, Diva), but under the thief's nose his wife (the ever-sensuous Helen Mirren) conducts an affair with a bookish lover (Alan Howard). Michael Gambon stars as a gangster who gorges himself at the restaurant he owns while his disaffected wife (Helen Mirren) plays gourmet food games in the kitchen with her lover (Alan Howard). The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover is both adored and detested for its combination of sumptuous beauty and revolting decadence. Written and directed by Peter Greenaway.įew directors polarize audiences like Peter Greenaway, a filmmaker as influenced by Jacobean revenge tragedy and 17th century painting as by the French New Wave. The brilliant ending to Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.Do yourself a favor and check out this film if you haven't seen it befo. Her range is simply unbelievable, and her Georgina (the Thiefs wife) grows and develops and. Starring: Helen Mirren, Richard Bohringer, Tim Roth, Michael Gambon, Alan Howard, Ewan Stewart, Ciaran Hinds, Ron Cook, Liz Smith, Alex Kingston, Roger Ashton-Griffiths. Helen Mirren is.oh god, there are no words for what she is.
Take your seat at the table and enjoy a trip back to the decadence and excitement of 1980’s London where a darkly thrilling story is told with delicious theatrical. The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover 1989 DVD (Region 1 - Playable in North America - The US, Canada, Mexico, etc.) Rated R. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover Go and get the dogs. Inspired by Peter Greenaway’s critically-acclaimed film, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is brought to life by Alan Faena in partnership with Unigram Theatrical.
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