THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER (1989)

The trailer for 1989’s THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER. Written and Directed by Peter Greenaway. The film stars Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth, Ciarán Hinds, Gary Olsen, Ewan Stewart, Roger Aston-Griffiths, Ron Cook, Liz Smith, Emer Gillespie, and Alex Kingston.

The plot summary is as follows:

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.

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