The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Synopsis
A rapacious thief regularly frequents a restaurant, accompanied by his wife, with the aim of enhancing his respectability. Instead of finding social gratification there, he becomes familiar with his wife's eroticism and his own humiliation. In the parking lot, the toilets, the kitchens, and the dining room of this restaurant, ten days of preparing, swallowing and vomiting food suggest that everything, absolutely everything, is edible, although not necessarily nourishing...
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Director (1)
Actors (6)
Production and distribution (3)
- Co-productions : Erato Films, Films Inc.
- Foreign production company : Allarts
- French distribution : Pari Films
Full credits (7)
- Executive Producers : Kees Kasander, Denis Wigman
- Screenwriter : Peter Greenaway
- Director of Photography : Sacha Vierny
- Music Composer : Michael Nyman
- Editor : John Wilson
- Costume designer : Jean-Paul Gaultier
- Producers : Daniel Toscan du Plantier, Pascale Dauman
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : English
- Coproducer countries : Great Britain, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1989
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IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam
The Netherlands, 2023
Retrospective: Peter Greenaway
