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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Spica, who is an English gangster, has taken over a high-class restaurant. Georgina, his abused wife, meets and soon fall in love with a bookshop owner, who constantly goes to the restaurant. They have a love affair under his nose but Spica learns it after all. He command his retinue to secretly kill her lover and then she decide to revenge.
3 November 1957, Westminster, London, England, UK
17 October 1963, Sherborne, Dorset, England, UK
19 January 1957, Hertfordshire, England, UK
12 May 1942, Harrow, Middlesex, England, UK
26 July 1945, Chiswick, London, England, UK
29 May 1962, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
11 December 1921, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK
14 May 1961, London, England, UK
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.September 01, 2009
Still the most lavishly offensive of Greenaway's films.May 20, 2003
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.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.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.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.January 01, 2000
Greenaway, the bemused, coolly ironic truth-teller, has painted a cruel portrait for a cruel time.January 01, 2000
Taboos? If director Peter Greenaway has any, you can't tell by this film.April 23, 2011
Take it or leave it: Greeanway's contemporary Jacobean drama, about greed, adultery and cannibalism, is brutal, provocative and visually brilliant.October 17, 2003
Startling and bold!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.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.