The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
CrimeDrama
7.3/10
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|124 min
Release Date: 1989-10-13
Overview - 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.
Production Companies
AllartsElsevier-Vendex Film BeheerAllarts CookErato FilmsFilm4 ProductionsErbograph Co.
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9/10
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', straigh...
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