A high minded intellectual art film variant of the British gangster film, which is at hard times to digest, much like the final meal that encompasses it denouement.
The Cook is Richard Bohringer, a French chef à la magnifique who shares ownership of his high restaurant with the Thief (Michael Gambon) a truly vile loud mouthed ogre, whose Wife (Helen Mirren) despises him and seeks escape in the arms of her book reading Lover (Alan Howard).
Greenaway delivers a main course that evokes but decadence and filth, that intersection of high and low class, where all the elegance of the world can’t escape the rot within. Gambon is as excellent and his character is vile. Truly one of the more loathsome boorish and disturbing figures I have seen on screen. His crude, non-stop intimidatory matter alone is grounds for divorce (or matricide) and that is before we learn the full extent of his evil.
A young Tim Roth appears as a henchman and Ian Dury (of the Blockheads fame) Ciaran Hinds and Owen from The Vicar of Dibley are all fellow gangsters. River Song is a waitress.
A high minded intellectual art film variant of the British gangster film, which is at hard times to digest, much like the final meal that encompasses it denouement.
The Cook is Richard Bohringer, a French chef à la magnifique who shares ownership of his high restaurant with the Thief (Michael Gambon) a truly vile loud mouthed ogre, whose Wife (Helen Mirren) despises him and seeks escape in the arms of her book reading Lover (Alan Howard).
Greenaway delivers a main course that evokes but decadence and filth, that intersection of high and low class, where all the elegance of the world can’t escape the rot within. Gambon is as excellent and his character is vile. Truly one of the more loathsome boorish and disturbing figures I have seen on screen. His crude, non-stop intimidatory matter alone is grounds for divorce (or matricide) and that is before we learn the full extent of his evil.
A young Tim Roth appears as a henchman and Ian Dury (of the Blockheads fame) Ciaran Hinds and Owen from The Vicar of Dibley are all fellow gangsters. River Song is a waitress.
