Summary:
This is probably Peter Greenaway's most famous (or infamous) film, which first shocked audiences at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and then on both sides of the Atlantic. A gang leader (Michael Gambon), accompanied by his wife (Helen Mirren) and his associates, entertains himself every night in a fancy French restaurant that he has recently bought. Having tired of her sadistic, b... Full Summary >>

Cast:
Richard Bohringer - (Richard Borst, the Cook)
Michael Gambon - (Albert Spica, the Thief)
Helen Mirren - (Georgina Spica, the Wife)
Alan Howard - (Michael, the Lover)
Tim Roth - (Mitchel)
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Review:
Filmmaker Peter Greenaway's most notorious film in a career marked by audacity, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover includes scenes of intense and shocking brutality and humiliation, fevered sexual encounters, and a final act of forced cannibalism. But what is most striking about the film is its visual style. Shot by the late, legenda... Continue >>

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