Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Uniform Title:

Cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover (Motion picture)

Title:

The cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover / Allarts in association with Elsevier Vendex presents ; a co-production between Allarts Cook, Erato Films [and] Films Inc. ; produced by Kees Kasander ; written & directed by Peter Greenaway.

Publisher, Date:

United Kingdom : Universal, 2003.

Description:

1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

A modern fable and political satire on the Thatcher years in Britain set at Le Hollandais, a gourmet restaurant. The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant, all observed by the cook. This nightly display of opulence, decadence, and gluttony leads to murder, torture and revenge.

Subjects:

Restaurateurs -- Great Britain -- Drama.

Adultery -- Drama.

Revenge -- Drama.

Deception -- Drama.

Genre:

Feature films.

Fiction films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Greenaway, Peter.

Kasander, Kees.

Bohringer, Richard.

Gambon, Michael.

Mirren, Helen.

Howard, Alan, 1937-2015.

Roth, Tim.

Smith, Liz, 1921-2016.

Vierny, Sacha, 1919-2001.

Wilson, John.

Nyman, Michael.

Allarts (Firm)

Elsevier Vendex Film.

Erato Films.

Universal Pictures (Firm)

Other Title:

Title on container: Peter Greenaways' The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 1990.

Music, Michael Nyman; photography, Sacha Vierny; editor, John Wilson.

Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth, Liz Smith.

DVD, all regions, widescreen; Dolby digital.

In English, German, Italian, or Spanish; with optional subtitles in: English for the deaf and hard of hearing, Italian, Spanish, German, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, and Norwegian.

Publisher Number:

DVD 903 117 9 11

Other Number:

77561843

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

726195

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Cook the