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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.Read More »
Michael Gambon
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Peter Greenaway – The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
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Harold Pinter – Mountain Language (1988)
1981-1990BBCDramaHarold PinterTVUnited KingdomSynopsis:
‘Inspired by a visit to Turkey and Pinter’s experience of the suppression of the Kurdish language, this short, sharp shock of a play explores the increasing intolerance of dissent.
Written in cold fury, it’s a play that shows how, in dictatorial states, the suppression of language becomes an extension of physical brutality.’
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David Hare – Paris by Night (1988)
1981-1990CrimeDavid HareDramaUnited KingdomClara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career – but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter.
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