The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

• 80%
• 1989
• Crime
• Drama
• Peter Greenaway
• Michael Gambon
• Richard Bohringer
• Helen Mirren

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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Also known as:

• (DE) Der Koch, der Dieb, seine Frau und ihr Liebhaber
• (EN) The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
• (ES) El cocinero, el ladrón, su mujer y su amante
• (FR) Le Cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme et son amant
• (HU) A szakács, a tolvaj, a felesége és a szeretője
• (DE) Der Koch, der Dieb, seine Frau und ihr Liebhaber
• (DK) Kokken, tyven, hans kone og hendes elsker
• (CZ) Kuchař, zloděj, jeho žena a její milenec
• (FR) Le cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme et son amant
• (BR) O Cozinheiro, o Ladrão, Sua Mulher e o Amante
• (US) The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Tagged as:

• satire
• sadism
• crime boss
• allegory
• sociopath
• adulterous wife
• murder
• stray dogs
• french cuisine
• avant-garde
• surrealism
• restaurant
• brutality
• abusive-husband
• public humiliation
• sexuality
• cooking