The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

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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.... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover:

Michael Gambon
Richard Bohringer
Helen Mirren
Alan Howard
Tim Roth
Ciarán Hinds

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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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Chicago Sun-Times - 10/10 by Roger EbertThe Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover is not an easy film to sit through. It doesn't simply make a show of being uncompromising -- it is uncompromised in every single shot from beginning to end. Why is it so extreme? Because it is a film made in rage, and rage cannot be modulated.
Washington Post - 10/10 by Desson ThomsonBritish director Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, treats the ugliest content imaginable in the most beautiful way possible. Give or take another masterpiece coming down the pike, this intricately assembled, viscerally provocative tract on consumerism gone full and grisly circle, is without a doubt, the most accomplished, astounding film of the year.
San Francisco Chronicle - 10/10 by Joshua KosmanIf there's anything disgusting or grotesque that The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover doesn't dabble in, I'm at a loss to figure out what it is. This film, a wildly exuberant, bitingly satirical examination of excess, bad taste, and great acting, is the kind of over-the-top experience that will have timid movie-goers running (not just walking) for the exits. Taboos? If director Peter Greenaway has any, you can't tell by this film.
The Seattle Times - 9/10 by John HartlAlbert is one of the ugliest characters ever brought to the screen. Ignorant, over-bearing and violent, it’s a gloriously rich performance by Gambon.
ReelViews - 9/10 by James BerardinelliTaboos? If director Peter Greenaway has any, you can't tell by this film.
New York Times - 9/10 by Caryn JamesMr. Greenaway turns this tale of a bullying criminal and his unfaithful wife into something profound and extremely rare: a work so intelligent and powerful that it evokes our best emotions and least civil impulses, so esthetically brilliant that it expands the boundaries of film itself.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 9/10 by Emanuel LevyTake it or leave it: Greeanway's contemporary Jacobean drama, about greed, adultery and cannibalism, is brutal, provocative and visually brilliant.
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul - 8/10 by Rob NelsonStill the most lavishly offensive of Greenaway's films.
Miami Herald - 8/10 by Bill CosfordNot surprisingly, his ranting soon becomes repetitive and boring. Greenaway's dialogue cannot sustain our interest, and his lack of humor is the film's biggest drawback. For a lover of games, the director is never remotely playful.
Austin Chronicle - 8/10 by Marjorie BaumgartenDespite its compelling nature, Greenaway’s film is not always an easy one to sit through.

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