Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover is sumptuous and sensual in every sense …except sexually. In the film, Michael Gambon plays a cruel gangster who fancies himself a gourmet. Each night he entertains a motley crew of thugs at a French restaurant he purchased, forcing the chef (Richard Bohringer) to cook huge feasts for the gang. His wife Georgina (Helen Mirren) has endured a miserable existence at the hands of her sadistic husband. She takes one of the restaurant’s regulars, a quiet bookshop owner (Alan Howard), as her lover. Their affair plays out all over the restaurant, until the fateful day when Georgina’s husband finds out. Then things go from bad to much much worse with the film’s ultimate scene combining the twin themes of sex and food in a gruesome finale — satisfying, yet mood killing.
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