The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 123movies
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 which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.
Views: 2107
Director: Peter Greenaway
Actors: Alan Howard, Ciarán Hinds, Ewan Stewart, Gary Olsen, Helen Mirren, Liz Smith, Michael Gambon, Richard Bohringer, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Tim Roth
Country: France, Netherlands, United Kingdom
Company: Allarts, Allarts Cook, Elsevier-Vendex Film Beheer
Awards: 7 wins & 11 nominations
Worldwide Gross: $8,523,994
Duration:
2h 4minRelease: 1989
Release Date: 1989-10-13
IMDb: 7.5
TMDB: 7.363
Rotten Tomatoes: 86%
Metacritic: 62
FilmAffinity: 7.0