The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
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At Le Hollandais gourmet restaurant, every night is filled with opulence, decadence and gluttony. But when the cook, a thief, his wife and her lover all come together, they unleash a shocking torrent of sex, food, murder and revenge.
Cast
- Richard Bohringer
- Michael Gambon
- Helen Mirren
- Alan Howard
- Tim Roth
- Ciarán Hinds
- Gary Olsen
- Ewan Stewart
- Roger Ashton-Griffiths
- Ron Cook
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The 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.
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
Mr. 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.
Caryn James
The New York Times
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