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Richard
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| Helen Mirren | ... | ||
| Alan Howard | ... |
Michael
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| Tim Roth | ... |
Mitchel
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| Ciarán Hinds | ... |
Cory
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Gary Olsen | ... |
Spangler
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Ewan Stewart | ... |
Harris
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| Roger Ashton-Griffiths | ... |
Turpin
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| Ron Cook | ... |
Mews
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| Liz Smith | ... |
Grace
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| Emer Gillespie | ... |
Patricia
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Janet Henfrey | ... |
Alice
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Arnie Breeveld | ... |
Eden
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Tony Alleff | ... |
Troy
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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 which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism. Written by Keith Loh <loh@sfu.ca>
A play. A director. A crazy writer. Some more crazy actors. A perfect score. Mix them together, add a doze of Antonioni and Fellini, and you'll get this movie. This is not your usual film, and for the majority of people this would be `THE' craziest movie ever! But, for sake of art and originality, please see this movie with an open mind and take it as is: an expression of originality and creativity. The costumes, the scenes, and the cinematography are like from a play in the decadent times. Very intriguing transitions from one scene to another, changing the light/costumes/music all at the same time, but following the same scenario idea, makes you wonder if the director/writer were `awake' when they created this.
or a better way of saying something about this movies: `it's a Greenaway'. You see a Dali painting and you know is by Dali, the same with this film: something that you'll always associate with Greenaway and his original way of seeing the world.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.