The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

1989 · 2 hr 4 min · NC-17

Crime, Drama

Directors

Peter Greenaway

Actors

  • Richard Bohringer
  • Michael Gambon
  • Helen Mirren

Credits: 3

Summary

A woman carries on an affair at an opulent gourmet restaurant, with deadly consequences.

More about this movie

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.

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