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Excessive , 17 August 2008
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The Cook, The Thief, His Wife And Her Lover
on DVD (1989)
Starring: Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Richard Bohringer
Director: Peter Greenaway
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As much attention was paid by the director to the set and choreography of this film as was paid to the dark tale of a brutally unequal and destructive relationship betwen a gangster and his lover in the creation of this viciously excessive drama. In spite of this, the entire cast's heroic acting successfully vies with the sumptuous and overblown yet richly mesmerising background to provide a compelling and vile account of intemperate greed, lust and nightmarish violence which promises to shock as well as to entertain viewers. Not at all for the faint-hearted.
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