Synopsis
Lust...Murder...Dessert. Bon Appetit!
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
1989 Directed by Peter Greenaway
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
Richard Bohringer Michael Gambon Helen Mirren Alan Howard Tim Roth Ciarán Hinds Liz Smith Gary Olsen Ewan Stewart Roger Ashton-Griffiths Ian Dury Diane Langton Prudence Oliver Ron Cook Emer Gillespie Janet Henfrey Willie Ross Roger Lloyd Pack Alex Kingston Bob Goody Paul Russell Arnie Breeveld Tony Alleff Ian Sears Peter Rush Pauline Mayer Ben Stoneham Andy Wilson John Mullis Show All…
Kokken, tyven, hans kone og hendes elsker, O Cozinheiro, o Ladrão, Sua Mulher e o Amante, Kuchař, zloděj, jeho žena a její milenec, Le cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme et son amant, Der Koch, der Dieb, seine Frau und ihr Liebhaber, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, A szakács, a tolvaj, a felesége és a szeretője, 요리사, 도둑, 그의 아내 그리고 그녀의 정부, コックとどろぼう、そのつまとあいじん, 情慾色香味, 廚師、大盜,他的妻子和她的情人, Kokken, tyven, hans kone og hennes elsker, El cuiner, el lladre, la seva esposa i el seu amant, Kokken, tyven, hans kone & hendes elsker, Ο Μάγειρας, ο Κλέφτης, η Γυναίκα του και ο Εραστής της, El cocinero, el ladrón, su mujer y su amante, Le Cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme et son amant, הטבח, הגנב, אשתו והמאהב, A szakács, a tolvaj, a feleség és a szeretője, Il cuoco, il ladro, sua moglie e l'amante, コックと泥棒、その妻と愛人, Virėjas, vagis, jo žmona ir jos meilužis, Kucharz, złodziej, jego żona i jej kochanek, O Cozinheiro, o Ladrão, a sua Mulher e o Amante Dela, Bucătarul, hoțul, soția hoțului și amantul ei, Повар, вор, его жена и её любовник, Kuchár, zlodej, jeho žena a jej milenec, Kocken, tjuven, hans fru och hennes älskare, Aşçı, Hırsız, Karısı ve Aşığı, Кухар, злодій, його дружина і її коханець, 厨师、大盗、他的太太和她的情人
I don't know if I need to discuss the politics at the heart of the film or not, so I will address them really quickly at the start and then move on to a purely aesthetic analyses of the film. The movie can easily be looked at as a reaction to Thatcherism and the consumer culture created under her conservative regime. The political allegory isn't even thinly veiled and Greenaway doesn't shy away from showing what he thinks of the key players (there is literal "cannibalism" in the film). The movie isn't just about Thatcherism (or Reaganism or any other "ism"s for that matter), it works as an critique of western values and us as people in general; we only…
it got the stinky, it got the smelly, it got the sexy, it got the poopy, it got helen mirren’s full bush? that’s gonna be a five stars from sarah squirm industries LLC
this is the grossest movie i've ever watched and i've seen the human centipede three times
"What you've got to realize is that the clever cook puts unlikely things together, like duck and orange, like pineapple and ham. It's called 'artistry'. You know, I am an artist the way I combine my business and my pleasure: Money's my business, eating's my pleasure and Georgie's my pleasure, too, though in a more private kind of way than stuffing the mouth and feeding the sewers, though the pleasures are related because the naughty bits and the dirty bits are so close together that it just goes to show how eating and sex are related. Georgie's naughty bits are nicely related, aren't they, Georgie?"
Five notions come to mind, almost immediately, when I begin to think about The Cook,…
***One of the best 150 films I have ever seen.***
As any brilliant avant-garde film, Peter Greenaway's absolute masterpiece is an attack to the senses. This attack, however, has the sensual danger of awakening the most primitive instincts of the human being. It has always been interesting to notice Greenaway's past focus on architectonic stillness and provocative imagery with symbolic representations. This film is no exception. Conglomerating bizarre elements and a literally unbeatable sense of humor that abounds in cleverness and intellectualism, this groundbreaking story has obviously received a mixed balance of positive and negative reviews. For those who can grab a book and read between lines, for those who appreciate Ernest Hemingway and Wim Wenders, for those who have…
Hard to watch this and not think of the myopic personas dominating the cultural landscape who have more or less bought their way to social relevancy and tried to buy their way into sophistication– "tried" being the operative word as it is evident to everyone else around them that they are just rich oafs who have no actual understanding of the material they desperately want to (re)appropriate but lean on their brute assertion that they do as a means to integrate themselves with such ideas and so create associations between the two. It doesn't matter how false this logic is, just that it exists and so exerts itself regardless of valid criticism. Such is the nature of post-truth politics; invisible…
“It's called artistry. I'm an artist, the way I combine my business and my pleasure.”
Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is the kind of film that’s just breathtakingly immaculate in every possible way; from a brilliant screenplay, to absolutely gorgeous set design and costuming, elegant cinematography, and amazingly impassioned performances that all lead to something completely delectable and beautiful. Its pure delicate dedication to the craft and attention to detail make for such wonderful, perfectly refined filmmaking that few movies can ever seem pull off so magnificently, and I just adore every part of this flawless film so much.
I was not prepared for this hyper-stylized satirical tour de force of food, sex, artistry, and excrement.
"Now, you behave yourself in the future and pay for what I ask you or next time I'm gonna make you eat your own shit."
There were so many times when this poster on Letterboxd of Helen Mirren looking sexy caught my attention, along with that long obscure title. Right from the start the intense avant-garde style of my first Peter Greenaway film caught me off guard, and I would not recommend going into it blind.
Similar to a film like 'Dogville', you can tell 'The Cook, the Theif, His Wife & Her Lover is taking place on a set and has the feel…