Food and Film – The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

NC-17
LA FOOD BOWL FEATURED EVENT MON. MAY 20
Time: 6:30pm Dinner followed by Screening
What: The 1989 crime drama is arguably Peter Greenaway’s most famous (or infamous) film, which first shocked audiences at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and then on both sides of the Atlantic. A gang leader (Michael Gambon), accompanied by his wife (Helen Mirren) and his associates, entertains himself every night in a fancy restaurant that he has recently bought. Having tired of her sadistic, boorish husband, the wife finds herself a lover (Alan Howard) and makes love to him in the restaurant’s coziest places with the silent permission of the cook (Richard Bohringer).
Sergio Corbia of Ciabatta Bar and Fabiolus Cafe crafts a specialty menu that complements Greenaway’s paradoxical comments on the relations between eating and sex, love and death.
Location: Arena Cinelounge / Ciabatta Bar (6464 Sunset Blvd. Lobby Level, Hollywood, 90028)
ALL SALES ARE FINAL.
Tickets: $75
Included with Ticket : Buffet Dinner Reception followed by Film (84 minutes)