The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Synopsis

Inside Le Hollandais, a cavernous, opulent French restaurant decorated like a Frans Hals painting, a vulgar, sadistic gangster terrorizes his guests and physically abuses his refined wife, who embarks on a passionate, silent sexual affair with a bookish regular in the restaurant kitchen and meat lockers with the complicit French chef's blessing, ending in an unimaginable cannibalistic revenge banquet. Peter Greenaway and Sacha Vierny's notorious, visually monumental political allegory starring Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, and Richard Bohringer with Jean-Paul Gaultier's changing-color costumes and Michael Nyman's score.