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Albert Spica is a violent gangster and part-owner of Le Hollandais, a restaurant which he and his circle of cronies visit in the evenings. Although Spica has pretensions to be a gourmet, he is in fact coarse in his tastes and ignorant about cuisine, and is also violent and insulting towards the other guests. His head chef Richard despises him, but also fears him and is obliged to allow him to stay. Spica's wife Georgina is, it transpires, regularly abused by him, and is terrified of him. However, she begins to take an interest in one of the other guests, Michael, and, with Richard's collusion soon begins an extra-marital affair with him in the kitchen of Le Hollandais.

When Albert learns of the affair, he threatens to kill, cook and eat Michael, and Michael and Georgina take refuge in Michael's book store where he lives. Albert, however, tortures a young kitchen boy who knows their whereabouts and tracks them down. While Georgina is visiting the boy at the hospital, Albert orders Michael killed by having pages of his own books forced down his throat; Albert and his men then leave, and Georgina finds Michael's body.

Georgina brings the body back to Richard and asks him to cook it. At first he refuses, thinking she intends to eat it. However, when she explains that she intends to force feed the body to Albert, he agrees. Georgina, armed and surrounded by several of Albert's other victims, presents Michael's roasted carcass and, holding the gun on him, suggests that Albert "try the cock". Albert doesn't do this specifically but his resistance wears out and he takes a bite of Michael's flesh. Georgina then shoots him, contemptuously calling him "cannibal."

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  • No, it is by far one of thE mOst Beautifull Movies Ever Made

    the music, the color, the drama... please, name me a BETTER movie?

    even the title is a poem...

    the cook...

    the thief..

    his wife.. and... her lover....

    ah! Ah! AH!

    and when seeing it full color, full sound, big screen, dark room, bowl of popcorn in your hands, you WILL be grasped by it..

    just listen to that music! how it fits the scene! the colors! the colors! dont you see!

    that music will be in your head for days! YEARS!

  • Greenaway has never cared about characters, and starting with this film he pretty much gave up on story entirely; you're looking for value where none was intended, except for some cheap shock no doubt designed to sell tickets. The point is the imagery, which I find some of the most complex around and very worth it.

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  • @yumyums12 "Art" is not a genre.

  • Is it wrong that i consider this to be one of the most hilarious scenes ever depicted on film in spite of the misogyny, violence towards women, and racism? Oh wait... that's why it's funny!

  • @blagkonijn You are right, but you can see "The double life of Veronique", it's a masterpiece by Kieslowvski, you going to love, I'm sure!

  • @blagkonijn its my all time favourite..it has everything a film should have!

  • one of the most amazing camera plan i've ever seen!

    i just loved this movie, and nobody around me had ever heard of it

  • I can name a lot of movies better, and all in the art genre

    A Clockwork Orange

    American Beauty

    Happiness

    There's more

  • die Schleifgeräusche der Messer im Hintergrund - genial

  • Are you kidding? The way Gambon plays him is only slightly better than this guy. Remember the scene in Goblet of Fire when he shakes Harry? "Did you put your name in the Goblet?!"

  • and I always thought that Dumbledore was such a kindly Old Wizard

  • ..."He is Jewish, and he is from Ethiopia...!!" that is in the clip .. I hear that line, more than anything else... ... "ስም ያለው ሞኝ ነው" አለ ያገሬ ሰው....

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