The Cook, the Thief, His Wife
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- Genre: Crime • Drama • Movies
- Country: Netherlands, United Kingdom, France
- Premier: April 6, 1990
- Director:Peter Greenaway
- WriterPeter Greenaway
- Stars:Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth, Ciarán Hinds, Gary Olsen, Ewan Stewart, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Ron Cook
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife
Tagline: Greenaway's recipe of food and sex mixed with art is both delicious and wonderfully wicked.
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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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