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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
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The film follows the corpse of one of the most dangerous gangsters, called Spica, who owns a high-class restaurant. This man married Georgina, his assaulted wife, and she soon fell in love with a library owner, going to her husband's restaurant. One day, Georgina falls in love with this guy as they seem to have an affair under his nose, but Spica learns this after all, where he can take revenge on his wife's lover.
Actors:
Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth, Ciarán Hinds, Gary Olsen, Ewan Stewart, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Ron Cook, Liz Smith, ...»
Director:
Peter Greenaway
Country:
United Kingdom, France
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#Allarts #Allarts Cook #Elsevier-Vendex Film Beheer #Helen Mirren #Michael Gambon #Peter Greenaway #Richard Bohringer
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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com
April 23, 2011 Take it or leave it: Greeanway's contemporary Jacobean drama, about greed, adultery and cannibalism, is brutal, provocative and visually brilliant.
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat Spirituality and Practice
August 30, 2004 The Cook, the Thief. His Wife and Her Lover is a dark and grim morality play about our insatiable appetite for cruelty and power.
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Geoff Andrew Time Out
June 24, 2006 For a Jacobean-style drama about deadly emotions, the film lacks passion; only in the final half-hour, with Michael Nyman's funereal music supplying a welcome gravity, does it at last exert a stately power.
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Hal Hinson Washington Post
January 01, 2000 Greenaway, the bemused, coolly ironic truth-teller, has painted a cruel portrait for a cruel time.
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Desson Thomson Washington Post
January 01, 2000 Give or take another masterpiece coming down the pike, this intricately assembled, viscerally provocative tract on consumerism gone full and grisly circle, is without a doubt, the most accomplished, astounding film of the year.
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Rob Nelson City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
September 01, 2009 Still the most lavishly offensive of Greenaway's films.
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Variety Staff Variety
October 18, 2008 Albert is one of the ugliest characters ever brought to the screen. Ignorant, over-bearing and violent, it's a gloriously rich performance by Gambon.
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James Berardinelli ReelViews
January 01, 2000 Taboos? If director Peter Greenaway has any, you can't tell by this film.
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Dennis Schwartz Ozus' World Movie Reviews
October 15, 2007 Highly stylized and elegant Jacobean revenge tale over adultery and jealousy that rolls against the taste buds like a mouth full of hot pepper.
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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com
August 13, 2011 [VIDEO ESSAY] ... a masterpiece of British cinema built on several hundred years of literary tradition. The film must be viewed more than once to begin to apprehend its strong and subtle layers of rope-thick satire.
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