The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Peter Greenaway / NL, 1989 / 124 min.
Top acting talent populates Peter Greenaway’s succès de scandale, including Helen Mirren and Michael Gambon in the lead roles. About the violence a mafioso (‘the Thief’) inflicts on his wife (‘the Wife’), her infidelity with ‘the Lover’ and everything that follows. Film chosen by Felix de Rooy.
Before Greenaway astonished the world with The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover he was seen as a director of well-thought-out, rather impenetrable films; he made his name with critically acclaimed, intellectual heavyweight movies such as The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982), A Zed and Two Noughts (1985) and The Belly of an Architect (1987).
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Director
Peter Greenaway
Production year
1989
Country
NL
Original title
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Length
124 min.
Language
none
Subtitles
NONE
Format
35mm
Part of
Felix de Rooy
Felix de Rooy (1952) is a filmmaker from Curaçao who is also active as an actor, visual artist, theatre-maker and collector. Many young makers in the Netherlands and the Caribbean see him as a major source of inspiration. Eye is presenting an overview of short and feature-length fiction films by and with Felix de Rooy.
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