It is the story of Spica who is considered a first-class gangster and owns a high-class restaurant. Once upon a time, this man marries Georgina and soon falls in love with a library owner, who always goes to the restaurant. Gorena and this man have an affair, but Spica learns this after all as he orders his entourage to secretly kill her lover, which turns things upside down.
Critics Of "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover"
Caryn James
New York Times
May 20, 2003
A work so intelligent and powerful that it evokes our best emotions and least civil impulses, so esthetically brilliant that it expands the boundaries of film itself.
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality and Practice
August 30, 2004
The Cook, the Thief. His Wife and Her Lover is a dark and grim morality play about our insatiable appetite for cruelty and power.
[VIDEO ESSAY] ... a masterpiece of British cinema built on several hundred years of literary tradition. The film must be viewed more than once to begin to apprehend its strong and subtle layers of rope-thick satire.
For a Jacobean-style drama about deadly emotions, the film lacks passion; only in the final half-hour, with Michael Nyman's funereal music supplying a welcome gravity, does it at last exert a stately power.
Give or take another masterpiece coming down the pike, this intricately assembled, viscerally provocative tract on consumerism gone full and grisly circle, is without a doubt, the most accomplished, astounding film of the year.
