The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover — Thursday Film Series

Lust...Murder...Dessert. Bon Appetit! Thursday Film Series brings us 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover' curtesy of Jaime for the series, A Reel Catch; Committee Choice.🍽️ When churlish mobster Albert Spica acquires an upscale French restaurant in London, he dines there nightly, effectively scaring off the clientele with his bad manners. His wife, Georgina, is especially disgusted by him, and soon begins an affair with regular guest Michael. Despite their best efforts to keep it secret, Spica learns about their trysts, and he plots a terrible revenge.🩸 "Each frame is an old master painting; curtained portals and flanking attendants make pomp of entrances and exits. The thunder of opening and closing doors echoes lingeringly down the long corridor of the film’s esthetic distance." ART FORUM This series was fished out of the members favourite movies, each film chosen by and representing a member of the Committee. There’s no overarching theme just films wrangled from the depths