The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
Let's enjoy this Easter season, with its many culinary traditions, to explore a tempting style of cinema: films that honor victuals, those who prepare them and those who devour them. Gourmet and luscious - in restaurants or in private, food is a jubilant playground for cinema. Unifying, outrageous, virtuoso or explosive, the scenes of meals and food offer the perfect frame to parody or shake up human relations.
Three short scenes illustrate with a sarcastic humor dialogues that do not give much...
Albert, the thief, a bloodthirsty despot, accompanied by his henchmen and Georgina, his wife, dine every night in the fancy restaurant of Richard, the cook. They feast and indulge in vulgarity.
Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway, is a Welsh film director, screenwriter, and artist. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular. Common traits in his film are the scenic composition and illumination and the contrasts of costume and nudity, nature and architecture, furniture and people, sexual pleasure and painful death. (Wikipedia)
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