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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Director: Peter Greenaway Run Time: 124 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1989

Starring: Alan Howard, Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon, Richard Bohringer, Tim Roth

Peter Greenaway’s laybrinthine crime epic set over several days of dining with a boorish gangster and his cohort and his over it wife. She meets a more refined gentleman and the table is then set for carnage. Spectacular sets and costume design from Gaultier.

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