A wealthy Gangster and his entourage frequent a restaurant where the gangster's wife begins a torrid affair with another diner.
Bizarre mix of brutality and beauty as only Greenaway can cook them up. A feast for the eyes and ears if often an unpalatable and deeply disturbing one.
Mirren, Bohringer and Howard are good, but Gambon is something else again and if you are used to his benign Dumbledore then this is the equivalent of being kneed in the groin by your grandma. |