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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover - Region 1 DVD

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Description: Few directors polarize audiences like Peter Greenaway, a filmmaker as influenced by Jacobean revenge tragedy and 17th century painting as by the French New Wave. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover is both adored and detested for its combination of sumptuous beauty and revolting decadence. A vile, gluttonous thief (Michael Gambon, The Singing Detective) spews hate and abuse at a restaurant run by a stoic French cook (Richard Bohringer, Diva), but under the thief's nose his wife (the ever-sensuous Helen Mirren, Prime Suspect) conducts an affair with a bookish lover (Alan Howard, Strapless). Clothing (by avant-gar ... (more)
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release date: 13 March 2001
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0013131139198 UPC: 013131139198
Tags: Helen Mirren (1), Richard Bohringer (1), Alan Howard (1), NC-17 (1), Lionsgate (1), Restaurant (1), R (1), Cannibalism (1), Tim Roth (1), Science Fiction (1), Drama (1), Michael Gambon (1), 1989 (1), Gangster (1), Murder (1), Crime (1), Torture (1), Romance (1)
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