The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover

Tim's character: Mithcel
Release dates: April 6, 1989 US
Written & Directed by: Peter Greenaway
Also starring: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard
Producer: Kees Kasander

Synopsis

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 which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.

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