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Starring
Helen Mirren, Michael Gambon, Tim Roth

Director
Peter Greenaway

Year
1989

Genre
Drama

Synopsis
Lust... murder... dessert. Bon Appetit! Oscar winner Helen Mirren and Michael Gambon star in this exotic tale of infidelity where a woman, bored of her oafish crime boss husband, starts having an affair with a quiet bookseller (Alan Howard) at her husband's restaurant.

Using specific colours to represent each set of the film, acclaimed director Peter Greenaway draws remarkable comparisons between food, sex and violence, changing the way we think about our behaviour and actions. The lengthy tracking shot from the restaurant to the toilet is supposed to be symbolic of food passing through the intestinal tract.

The costume design by Jean-Paul Gaultier is exquisite and will leave a lasting impression.

TRIVIA:
The dog excrement was actually chocolate mousse; the car that Albert Spica drives is listed in the credits as a Valentine Lindsay AT V12. It is in fact a modified early-'70s Dodge Dart Swinger; In Michael's book depository, a marker can be seen bearing the label "Death in the Seine." This was the name of a short film by writer-director Peter Greenaway, made the previous year; the mural on the back wall of the dining room is "The Banquet of the Officers of the St. George Militia of Haarlem" (1616) by Frans Hals.

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