Karen Knox on The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (Someone Else's Movie)

Karen Knox on The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Someone Else's Movie · Jan 10, 2023 · 51m

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The movie

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

The main topic of this episode

Show notes

Actor and filmmaker Karen Knox -- whom you may know from Slo Pitch, Barbelle and Homeschooled, among others, and whose first feature Adult Adoption opens in Toronto this Saturday and in London and Vancouver next week, is here to make a meal of Peter Greenaway's baroque 1989 breakthrough The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, in which Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren and Alan Howard play four people whose lives intersect at a very fancy London restaurant, with spectacularly tragic results. Your genial host Norm Wilner has a napkin round his neck already. Hosted by...