stars
- Michael Gambon
- Tim Roth
- Helen Mirren
awards
- Won Best Actor, Best Cinematography, Best Director, and Best Original Soundtrack at the Catalonian International Film Festival
- Won the CFCA Award for Best Foreign Film at the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
the low-down
- "excellent. exciting.
extraordinary"
Time Magazine
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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (cert. 18)
synopsis
The Cook serves up gourmet masterpieces in a beautiful restaurant. The thief holds his tyrannical court in the restaurant, terrorising all around him. His wife has a dangerous and illicit passion. Her lover is having the riskiest affair of this life. Peter Greenaway's notorious film is a modern day revenger's tragedy spiked with comedy, starring Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren and Tim Roth.
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