| 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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