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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1990) |
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Venice and Peter
by happy new yorker (movies profile)
Nov 20, 2006
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2 people found this review helpful
This is a little gem that only after several views someone can really appreciate. Like a full-bodied Barolo, it cannot be judged from a single sip. Starting from a rather obvious story that enfolds in a quite unusual and primitive way, the movie plot develops in a sensorial, at time violent and beastly, but always refined connubium of food, love and art. What else do we need in life? The scenography is an hommage to the best dutch art legacy. With passion, rage and sensuality, like in "Prospero's Book", Peter uses each element of the movie as a thread, the layer of a 3D canvas that you must follow to capture its most delicate details. The beauty of the scenes, the colors, the music, the costumes, the photography overcome the occasional vulgarity that could offend the easy-tickled. There are scenes so powerful that dialogues become marginal, almost annoying. It has the intensity typical, and unfortunately lost today, of the silent movies. I saw it, for the first time, on its opening night, at the Biennale of Cinema in Venice. It had all the innermost elements of the city in it. It was the perfect location and it provoked in me sensations I still feel today. Enjoy with half a glass of your best Barolo. Cin cin. |
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