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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Lust...Murder...Dessert. Bon Appetit!

7.3 / 10

124 minutes

1989-10-13

English

FR

Actors :

Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth, Ciarán Hinds, Liz Smith, Gary Olsen, Ewan Stewart, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Ian Dury, Diane Langton, Prudence Oliver, Ron Cook, Emer Gillespie

Description

The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.

Reviews

talisencrw

talisencrw

6/23/2021, 3:57:47 PM

Having previously watched Greenaway's 'Prospero's Books', basically from the same era, one definitely gets a sense of the auteur, of great visualizing prowess in the Welsh native. I adore watching Helen Mirren from ANY era, but particularly here, in between the young adulthood beauty she displayed in Michael Powell's 'Age of Consent', through the remarkably absurd and audacious 'Caligula', straigh...