The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989 123movies

Watch: The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989 123movies, Full Movie Online – 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..
Plot: The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband’s restaurant.
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Ratings:

	7.5/10 Votes: 38,632
	86% | RottenTomatoes
	62/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 485 Popularity: 14.279 | TMDB

Reviews:

Albert’s Special Treat
The cruel and sadistic crime boss Albert Spica (Michael Gambon) has dinner every night in his restaurant with his wife Georgina Spica (Helen Mirren) and his gang. Albert abuses of his wife, his gangsters, the chef Richard Borst (Richard Bohringer) and the restaurant employees.

When Georgina meets the gentle bookseller Michael (Alan Howard) in the restaurant, they have a torrid affair in the restroom and in the store, and they are covered by Richard. However the prostitute Pat discloses to Albert that he has been betrayed by Georgina and Albert kills Michael. However Georgina plots revenge against Albert with the support of Richard and the victims of Albert.

“The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover” is one of the most grotesque, eschatological, bizarre and weird films that I have ever seen. But it is also absolutely original and mesmerizing, with intense use of colors, and with the contrast of vulgarity and art. Food, eschatology, sex, cruelty, torture, cannibalism and revenge are entwined along 124 minutes running time. The result is not pleasant and only specific audiences will appreciate this film. Last time I had seen this film was on 08 September 2000 on VHS. My vote is eight.

Title (Brazil): “O Cozinheiro, o Ladrão, Sua Mulher e o Amante” (“The Cook the Thief, His Wife and the Lover”)

There are three kinds of people in the world, those who can count and those who can’t
This is one of those “lovem or hatem” movies. I didn’t like it. It is shot like a play, everything shouts “look at the art”, but I haven’t seen much. To think that I had no space on my hard drive for a month because I kept this movie.

Let me spell it out for you: if you are a normal movie goer, stay away from this. It does have grotesque imagery, but it isn’t fun like the gore in really stupid horror movies and it isn’t shocking as the ones in historical or socio-political ones. It is with gangsters, but all they do is speak loudly and annoyingly the whole movie, spilling out pretentious garbage. Have you seen movies like “Lock, Stock and Barrel”? You remember the gangsters always talking a lot and in metaphors before doing gangster stuff? Imagine two hours of this guy talking the same rubbish, with the same accent, but doing nothing really.

Now if you , for some reason or another, want to see all the movies with a particular actor or directed by a particular director and you stumble upon actors in this movie or the director, then watch this. You will not like the movie anyway, but you will achieve your goal.

I rarely give a mark of under 5, but this film deserves it.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 2 hr 4 min (124 min), 1 hr 38 min (98 min) (R-rated) (USA), 1 hr 40 min (100 min) (heavily cut) (South Korea)
Budget 2300000
Revenue 7724701
Status Released
Rated X
Genre Crime, Drama
Director Peter Greenaway
Writer Peter Greenaway
Actors Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren
Country Netherlands, United Kingdom, France
Awards 7 wins & 11 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Stereo (as Dolby Stereo in selected theatres)
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Technovision Cameras and Lenses (uncredited)
Laboratory Rank Film Laboratories, Denham, UK (colour & opticals) (as Rank Film Laboratories)
Film Length 3,392 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Technovision (anamorphic) (uncredited)
Printed Film Format 35 mm