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 which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.
Release Date: 6 April 1990Runtime: 98 min
Stars:
- Alan Howard
- Arnie Breeveld
- Ciarán Hinds
- Emer Gillespie
- Ewan Stewart
- Gary Olsen
- Helen Mirren
- Janet Henfrey
- Liz Smith
- Michael Gambon
- Richard Bohringer
- Roger Ashton-Griffiths
- Ron Cook
- Tim Roth
- Tony Alleff
Director: Peter Greenaway
