The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Lust...Murder...Dessert. Bon Appetit!
Directed by Peter Greenaway
Produced by Allarts, Elsevier-Vendex Film Beheer
A visually sumptuous, deliberately provocative allegory of power, desire, and degradation that uses extreme imagery and surrealism to explore sadism and revenge.
When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners. His wife, Georgina, is especially disgusted by him, and soon begins an affair with regular guest Michael. Despite their best efforts to keep it secret, Spica learns about their trysts, and he plots a terrible revenge.
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