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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Lust...Murder...Dessert. Bon Appetit!
When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners. His wife, Georgina, is especially disgusted by him, and soon begins an affair with regular guest Michael. Despite their best efforts to keep it secret, Spica learns about their trysts, and he plots a terrible revenge.
- Original title
- The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
- Language
- EN
- Country
- FR,NL,GB
- Budget
- $2,300,000
- Revenue
- $7,724,701
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May 2, 2016 · via TMDB
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', straight to the sophisticated and very dangerous gorgeousness displayed in 'The Comfort of Strangers'. It's great to see any dude who's mean to a beautiful woman get their comeuppance (particularly the wealthy--it offers a sort of 'wish fulfillment' for the 99% of us), and the climax here is one of cinema's most articulate presentation of that phenomenon. It definitely made me wish to see the rest of both Greenaway's movies and of Mirren's performances. Well worth the acquired taste necessary for this sort of delicacy.
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Michael Gambon
Albert Spica
Richard Bohringer
Richard Boarst
Helen Mirren
Georgina Spica
Alan Howard
Michael
Tim Roth
Mitchel
Ciarán Hinds
Cory
Liz Smith
Grace
Gary Olsen
Spangler
Ewan Stewart
Harris
Roger Ashton-Griffiths
Turpin
Ian Dury
Terry Fitch
Ron Cook
Mews
Emer Gillespie
Patricia
Janet Henfrey
Alice
Willie Ross
Roy
Roger Lloyd Pack
Geoff
Alex Kingston
Adele
Ian Sears
Phillipe
Sophie Goodchild
Dancer
Sue Maund
Kitchen Staff
Jean-Paul Gaultier
Costume Design
Peter Greenaway
Director
John Wilson
Editor
Daniel Toscan du Plantier
Co-Producer
Pascale Dauman
Co-Producer
Kees Kasander
Producer
Michael Nyman
Original Music Composer
Peter Greenaway
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