

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Lust...Murder...Dessert. Bon Appetit!
When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners. His wife, Georgina, is especially disgusted by him, and soon begins an affair with regular guest Michael. Despite their best efforts to keep it secret, Spica learns about their trysts, and he plots a terrible revenge.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $2.3M
- Box office
- $7.7M
- Language
- English
- sadism
- sexuality
- allegory
- cooking
- restaurant
- crime boss
- satire
- surrealism
- sociopath
- murder
- brutality
- avant-garde
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Produced in
France, United Kingdom, Netherlands
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalNC-176 Apr 1990
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1813 Oct 1989
- Physical18Fabulous Films Blu-ray / DVD4 Jul 2016
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalR18+29 Mar 1990
CanadaCA
- PremiereRToronto International Film Festival11 Sept 1989
- PremiereCinefest Sudbury International Film Festival22 Sept 1990
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical1824 May 1990
BelgiumBE
- TheatricalKNT/ENA(Gent)2 Nov 1989
BrazilBR
- Physical18(video premiere)6 Apr 1990
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical (limited)Projekt 1001 Apr 1996
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1516 Apr 1990
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1823 Nov 1990
FranceFR
- Theatrical121 Nov 1989
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1823 Nov 1989
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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover was released on 13 October 1989.
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1- T9/10
talisencrw
5/2/2016
Having previously watched Greenaway's 'Prospero's Books', basically from the same era, one definitely gets a sense of the auteur, of great visualizing prowess in the Welsh native. I adore watching Helen Mirren from ANY era, but particularly here, in between the young adulthood beauty she displayed in Michael Powell's 'Age of Consent', through the remarkably absurd and audacious 'Caligula', straight to the sophisticat…
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