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Genres:
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Comedy /
Crime /
Drama /
Romance /
Horror /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Peter Greenaway
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Actors:
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Ewan Stewart,
Alan Howard,
Tony Alleff,
Gary Olsen,
Richard Bohringer,
Michael Gambon,
Helen Mirren,
Tim Roth,
Ciarán Hinds,
Roger Ashton-Griffiths,
Ron Cook,
Liz Smith
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Duration:
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124 min.
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Rating:
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(7.3/10)106
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Plot Summary:
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The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive fairy tale with a gentle bookseller between meals at her groom's restaurant. Rations, paint coding, shagging, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic provisions in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising new-fashioned fable which has been interpreted as an allegory also in behalf of Thatcherism.
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Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, The
Avant-garde director Peter Greenaway's most accessible film to date is a truly elegant, shocking and transfixing experience. A Jacobean drama in contemporary clothing, this savage indictment of greed, power and control in today's wannabe society finds Helen Mirren memorably strutting her stuff in another risky, and risqué, performance, while manic Michael Gambon portrays evil personified. Memorably scored by Michael Nyman, Greenaway's stunning "designer dream" is sick, sexy and rude in about equal provocative proportions and totally unforgettable.
Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, The
Elegant, stylized, painterly and extremely brutal variation on a Jacobean revenge tragedy, though some have seen it as a political satire on our materialistic times.
Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, The
Elegant, stylized, painterly and extremely brutal variation on a Jacobean get even for tragedy, yet some have seen it as a political pasquinade on our money-oriented times.
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