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The Cook & The Thief & His Wife & Her Lover

This was a little interesting piece that came my way. Something I hadn’t heard of, or seen before, yet boasts a powerful cast: Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Tim Roth.


Kind of slow moving, but it kept my attention for the most part. It’s about a guy who owns a restaurant who just likes to talk. Well, partly. His wife starts to have an affair with someone who keeps coming to the restaurant. Eventually things turn sour, like is usual.

The photography was very subtle in its genius (watch the reds). With great shooting, great cast, overall it is a very good movie. It’s good decent reviews on IMDB as well, problem is it’s very unknown :( The ending rocks too!


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Movie: The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover
Director:
Writer:
Peter Greenaway (writer)
Genre: Drama See  »
Tagline: Lust…Murder…Dessert. Bon Appetit!
Plot Outline: The wife of an oafish restaurant owner becomes bored with her husband and considers an affair with a regular patron. Full summary » | Full synopsis »
Awards:
5 wins&4 nominations
Cast: Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, Alan Howard, Tim Roth

Buy it on Amazon (there are a lot more buying options on Amazon, but this seemed the best)

Bye Bye Monkey

Bye Bye Monkey on IMDBWhat a nutty movie. What a nutty time period, the ’70s. Young Gérard Depardieu is amazing. From IMDB: A man walking on the beach near New York City finds the corpse of King Kong. He also finds Kong’s orphaned son, and takes it to a friend who lives in the city, and they decide to raise it.

Bye Bye Monkey

I’ve love to see this pulled off now. The acting was great, story was great. A feminist theater company Depardieu sometimess works for was having troubles coming up with an idea. Someone mentioned rape as a subject. They tried to do a reverse rape on Depardieu, but they liked it heh. Interesting part of the movie.

There’s plenty of nudity in here, as well as Depardieu making out with a 60 year old woman. The ending was a bit dramatic, but I liked it.

One comment on IMDB hit it correctly: Is it another world, or our world gone mad?


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Movie: Ciao maschio
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Genre: Comedy | Drama | Sci-Fi See  »
Plot Outline: A man walking on the beach near New York City finds the corpse of King Kong. He also finds Kong’s orphaned son, and takes it to a friend who lives in the city, and they decide to raise it. | Add synopsis »
Awards:
1 win&1 nomination
Cast: Gérard Depardieu, Marcello Mastroianni, James Coco, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Abigail Clayton

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Kynodontas

Kynodontas on IMDB I know it’s been awhile since I’ve posted, so I’m giving you a good one ;)

As usual, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. No background on this before I watched it, but when it was all said and done, it deserves to be on this site.

Kynodontas is about a family in Greece that is tightly controlled by the parents. The three kids don’t know anything about the civilized world. Their little world begins to unwind when the father brings home a co-worker for his son to relieve himself with sexually.

What a weird concept for a movie. If you think you’ve seen a family that is abnormal, they will be perfectly normal after watching this movie.

Below is a trailer:

I don’t have any amazon links to buy this, so you’ll have to use your resources to find it to watch.


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Movie: Kynodontas
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Genre: Drama See  »
Plot Outline: Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet… See more » | Add synopsis »
Awards:
9 wins&2 nominations
Cast: Christos Stergioglou, Michele Valley, Aggeliki Papoulia, Mary Tsoni, Hristos Passalis

Open Your Eyes

Remember that movie, Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise? Well, that movie was a remake of this one.

The plot is about a wealthy man who falls in love with this best friend’s love interest, and while at his birthday party, they head back to her house.  This is where all the shenanigans begins. Sort of. The next morning as he is leaving the girl’s house, a woman (from the party) followed him there and offers him a ride home, which he accepts. She goes crazy and crashes the car and from here on out it’s wtf is going on.

It’s a great movie. I saw the Vanilla Sky version before I saw this one, so I knew what was coming, which was too bad because this original is awesome. Oh, and it doesn’t have Tom Cruise in it, but Penélope Cruz is in it! FTW! Kinda cool they brought her back in Vanilla Sky playing the same part.

I’d recommend this movie over Vanilla Sky anyday. It is in Spanish, so subtitles all the way. I’ve seen it around named Permanent Midnight as well, and its original Spanish name, Abre los ojos.


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Movie: Open Your Eyes
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Genre: Drama | Mystery | Romance | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Plot Outline: A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
5 wins&11 nominations
Cast: Eduardo Noriega, Penélope Cruz, Chete Lera, Fele Martínez, Najwa Nimri

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