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Every night inside the same French restaurant, a browbeaten Cook (Richard Bohringer) prepares an extravagant, obscene meal for a boorish Thief (Michael Gambon, frighteningly reprehensible here), his tormented Wife (Hellen Mirren, beautiful amongst the ugliness), and his yes-men crew. While the Thief humiliates everyone at his table, he fails to notice when his Wife begins a torrid affair with a quiet customer (the Lover, Alan Howard) sitting across the restaurant. This nightly game continues until the couple is discovered, setting up numerous acts of unspeakable revenge from both sides.
Though containing a fairly straightforward narrative, Greenaway saturates his study with a haunting Michael Nyman score, photographs it with endless horizontal tracking shots that extend forever, and complicates it with strict color schemes, various painting allusions and by doubling his characters as British class symbols. He also depicts behavior involving defecation, sadism/masochism, explicit sexuality, cruel torture and shame, graphic violence and cannibalism with unflinching glee and rare beauty. This isn't suggesting that such imagery is gratuitous, as Greenaway employs a visceral approach to suggest the desperate mental state of his characters--or pure rage and disgust, if it's to be read as a depiction of the divided state of the British class system under Thatcher. --Dave McCoy
| ACTORS: | Helen Mirren |
| CATEGORY: | Video |
| MANUFACTURER: | Lionsgate/Fox |
| MPAA RATING: | Unrated |
| FEATURES: | Color, Special Edition, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Feature Film-comedy |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 031398533030 |
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Customer Reviews of Cook Thief His Wife Her Lover
Stunning story, beautiful set, expertly filmed This movie leaves an impression. The first scene gives ample warning of what is to come, as if to warn off the faint of heart. The movie is a feast of refinement and vulgarity, delicacy and violence, love and revenge. The restaurant's vast beauty, the very French Cook, and the bookish Lover reading quietly by himself contrast jarringly with the Thief and his gang's gross behavior and their endless spout of blasphemy. The Wife's first encounter with the Lover, in the loo, while the Theif and his gang ramble senselessly, is brilliant. The whole scene takes place without the two ever exchanging a word, yet is electric and compelling. The set is masterful, full, and fun. I especially enjoyed the kitchen scenes, a great mixture of midieval and 1980's. The music is engaging, and fits the plot so well that hearing it now still gives me goosebumps. As the plot thickens, the tension rises unrelentingly. It is like a thriller at this point, because we have been shown that the Thief is scary and has a gruesome capacity to exert revenge. The music, the scenery, and the acting acompany this crecendo magnificently. The plot is executed intelligently, and doesn't insult the viewers intelligence. It is a movie you will either love or hate. Either way, you will never forget it.
Greenaway's "Satyricon"
What most people seem to miss in this film is that the wife and her lover are not victims. They are every bit as guilty and boorish in their own way as the horrible thief is. Their escape from the thief's sinful self-indulgence is by way of luxurious stimulation, continuing to gorge on exquisitely metaphoric cuisine and screwing artfully. This is Greenaway's "Satyricon", a picture of the evils of hedonism, and certainly a class commentary. Brilliantly done, and only ever so slightly condemning all its characters. It's easy to mistake the wife's "Cannibal!" for a triumphant, well-won war cry, but it is a sardonic indictment of all the players. Everyone is at blame in the film, everyone equally guilty of indulging their appetites.
a work of art
Not in Hollywood style, but who is looking for that, anyway? Please see this movie even once in your life!!! Enjoy.
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