Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989)
Release Year: 1989
Nation: France, United Kingdom, Netherlands
Alternative Title: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Spica, El cocinero
Director: Peter Greenaway
Writer: Peter Greenaway
Production & Genre
Producer: Producer: Kees Kasander
Co-Producer: Daniel Toscan du Plantier, Denis Wigman, Pascale Dauman
Companies: Allarts, Elsevier-Vendex
Budget: 2.300.000
Keywords
Keywords: sadism, sexuality, allegory, cooking, restaurant, crime boss, satire, surrealism, sociopath, murder, brutality, avant-garde, public humiliation, stray dog, abusive husband, french cuisine, adulterous wife, cannibalism, violence
Story
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
