The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Rating: 7.6 Plot Summary:
The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture, and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed, but brutally uncompromising modern fable.
Director: Peter Greenaway
Running time: 2h 4min
Genre: Crime,Drama
Release date: 6 July 1990 (Sweden)
Cast: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth, Ciarán Hinds
