This is as much as we will ever like the Thief.
#The cook the thief the wife the lover movie#
Original trailer for The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her LoverĬOMMENTS: He begins the movie by smearing dog feces on a quivering naked man who owes him money, then urinating on him. While the surrealism here is as subtle as the scatology is explicit, there can be no doubt that Cook is an outrageous, brutish and lovely work of sumptuous unreality from an eccentric avant-gardist that demands a place of honor among the weirdest films ever made. WHAT MAKES IT WEIRD: Although not as thoroughly weird as most of the rest of his oeuvre, Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover is the director’s most beloved (?) movie, and in many ways his poplar masterpiece. INDELIBLE IMAGE: We are going to skip over the shocking (and spoilerish) final image, and instead focus on the color transitions during the magnificent tracking shots: as Georgina walks from the sparkling white ladies’ room into the royal red of the restaurant’s main dining room, her dress changes color to match the decor. box office, where it grossed over $7 million, becoming the closest thing to a hit Greenaway has ever had. The controversy did not hurt, and probably significantly boosted, Cook at the U.S.Cook accepted a NC-17 rating for its DVD release. This is frequently cited as one of the films that led to the creation of the adults-only NC-17 rating (under 17 not admitted, a rating which fared little better than X). Rather than have the film released with an X rating (a designation associated with hardcore pornography in the public mind), Miramax released the film unrated in the U.S. The MPAA denied The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover an R-rating (under 17 not admitted without parent) because of its extreme content (including scat, violence, nudity, cannibalism, and some disgusting stuff, too).The Thief’s discovery of their affair sets off a chain of violent reprisals which ultimately draw in the establishment’s Cook. A bookseller who dines there catches the eye of Albert’s mistreated Wife, and the two embark on an illicit affair. PLOT: A brutish but successful criminal with expensive tastes has bought a French restaurant, where he holds court nightly drinking the finest wines and abusing staff and customers equally. The only other director I can think of who’s close is David Lynch.”–Helen MirrenįEATURING: Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon, Richard Bohringer, Alan Howard For all of his intellectualism, I think Peter Greenaway directs from his real inner gut, and he seems to have a very direct channel in that. They always say, it’s whatever you want it to be - because I think that’s their intention, to connect with each person’s subconscious, and not to try and dictate. “Painters hate having to explain what their work is about.
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