Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren
The wife of an oafish restaurant owner becomes bored with her husband and considers an affair with a regular patron.
DVD Release Date: March 13, 2001
Stats: 1,139 reviews
Visually, I loved it. Every frame was like a painting, like theatre on film. The story, a little contrived. I get the whole heaven and hell thing, the restaurant being the universe and all, I just didn't like it. The acting was superb, Gambon playing the Devil was inspired, it?s ...( read more)
Greenaway's idiosyncratic directorial style is in full bloom here in his most notorious film. A visual and technical blend of theatrical and filmic sensibilities while retaining touches of painterly values in choosing the color coordination of set pieces.
A somewhat simple tal...( read more)
a brutal gangster film with set design like northern rennaissance painting, costumes by gaultier and a wonderful score. great cast, especially michael gambon, who plays an absolute monster. tracing an explicit relationship between food, sex and death, it's not for the easily of...( read more)
Gruesome and offensive, set in a restaurant, enough to make one lose their appetite. A wealthy thief (Michael Gambon) plays a cruel boorish husband who delights in mentally torturing his wife (Helen Mirren). She has an affair with a librarian (Alen Howard). Chaos, murder and reve...( read more)
Visually stunning and deeply disturbing. It's a powerful, sometimes (blackly) funny, drama about love, hate and restaurants. For fans of David Lynch and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. And one of the best scores of all time by Michael Nyman. Do NOT bother seeing it unless its the widescreen ...( read more)
The thing who liked most was the photograpy, the stages, and the colors used in every scene, the same in the costumes and in the set.
Having seen The Baby of Macon before it Greenaway's style wasn't entirely new in mind but the film still has some incredible pan techniques - it's meant for the big screen and unfortunately for the US it's not even properly available on DVD yet.
Beautiful sets, explicit sex and violence, and some pretty bad table manners. This movie's got it all. It took me a while to find this one, but it was worth the wait. Thanks Youtube.
A very 'out there' movie with some outlandish dishes, food being the theme obviously. Different, but if you like your movies on the dark side you'll enjoy this.
I saw this movie back in 1991 at Southern Oregon University. They had to get PERMISSION to show this movie on campus because it was so controversial! I know I thought was kinda weird but I couldn't bring myself to walk out of it, and I was glad I didn't cuz I love the way that cruel thief guy got his comeuppance! This is definitely NOT a movie for children or those with vulnerable sensitivities that's for sure....
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