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Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover, The

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Apollo Score: Apollo Score: 85. Click for an explanation of the scoring system.

Readers' Rating: 84/100

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Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover, The

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And now for something completely different. Imagine a restaurant where anything goes – absolutely anything – both in terms of food and behaviour. Peter Greenaway has blended sex, murder, food and revenge as in no other film.

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1989
France, Netherlands, UK
124 minutes
Studio/distributor: Anchor Bay

Rated NC-17.

Full ReviewRead the full review by Scott Weinberg Apollo Score: 85

A non-stop barrage of ambitious metaphors, intricate symbolism and wall-to-wall subtext that works best simply as a sumptuously gorgeous and irretrievably ugly morality tale. - Scott Weinberg

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