The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) 4K Restoration
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Director: Peter Greenaway Run Time: 124 min. Release Year: 1989
Starring: Alan Howard, Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon, Richard Bohringer, Tim Roth
Country: Netherlands, United Kingdom, France
Language: English, French, Dutch
About the film:
Tired of her husband’s boorish lifestyle and difficult attitude, the wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secret romance with a bookish patron between meals at her husband’s restaurant, sneaking in liaisons while he and his thugs dine.
“Greenaway’s new film is – let us waste no time – a masterpiece.”
—Nigel Andrews, Financial Times
About the filmmaker:
Peter Greenaway is a British filmmaker who began his career as a painter before making experimental short films and documentaries while working as an editor and director at the British Central Office of Information. In 1980 he made his feature-length directorial debut with The Falls, a unique assembly of 92 mockumentary-style shorts chronicling the victims of a fictional disaster referred to as the “Violent Unexplained Event.” A couple years later, Greenaway earned international recognition with his whodunnit narrative feature The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982). In the following years, Greenaway established himself as a daring and controversial filmmaker who is unafraid to approach topics like sexuality, religion, violence, and death. The Cook, the Theif, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) is often considered one of his most graphic and visceral films, brilliantly balancing gluttony, violence, sexuality, and humor.
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