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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.
Cast and crew
- Director
- Peter Greenaway
- Writer
- Peter Greenaway
- Starring
- Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren
Details
- Release date
- Apr 6, 1990
- Language
- English, French, Dutch
- Country
- United Kingdom, France, Netherlands
- Box office
- $7,724,701
- Awards
- 7 wins & 11 nominations total
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