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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

Year of production
1989
Duration
124 min.

Synopsis

The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture, and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed, but brutally uncompromising modern fable.

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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
Languages
English
French
Dutch

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