Uniform Title |
Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover (Motion picture : 1989) |
Title |
The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover. |
Published |
Australia : Distributed by Umbrella Entertainment, ©2021. |
Description |
1 DVD-video (119 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
Notes |
Catalogued from container. |
Umbrella Entertainment : DAVID4322. |
Originally released as a motion picture in 1989. |
Credits |
Directed and written by Peter Greenaway ; produced by Pascale Dauman, Daniel Toscan du Plantier, Denis Wigman. |
Performers |
Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon, Tim Roth, Richard Bohringer. |
Summary |
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. |
Target audience note |
Censorship classification : R18+ |
System details |
DVD video ; Dolby Digital 2.0 & Mono ; PAL ; Region 4 ; Aspect ratio 2.35:1, 16:9 widescreen. |
Language note |
English, German, Italian & Spanish. Subtitles: English HOH, Danish, Finnish, German, Italian, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish. |
Subjects |
Cooks -- Drama |
Bookstores -- Drama |
Gangsters -- Drama |
Adultery -- Drama |
Deception -- Drama |
Revenge -- Drama |
Feature films -- Great Britain |
Motion pictures, British |
Genre |
Crime films |
Dark comedy films |
Feature films |
Fiction films |
Video recordings for the hearing impaired |
Other Names |
Greenaway, Peter director, screenwriter. |
Dauman, Pascale, 1937-2007 producer. |
Toscan Du Plantier, Daniel producer |
Wigman, Denis producer. |
Mirren, Helen actor. |
Gambon, Michael actor. |
Roth, Tim actor. |
Bohringer, Richard actor. |
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