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Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, The

Kucharz, złodziej, jego żona i jej kochanka · dir. Peter Greenaway
France, The Netherlands, United Kingdom 1989, 124’

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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.

Director:Peter Greenaway
Screenplay:Peter Greenaway
Music:Michael Nyman
Cinematography:Sacha Vierny
Editing:John Wilson
Cast:Tim Roth, Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon
Awards:Najlepszy Film Nieanglojęzyczny / Best Foreign Movie (Nagroda Stowarzyszenia Krytyków Filmowych w Chicago / Chicago Film Critics Association Awards)