Actor and filmmaker Karen Knox, whose first feature Adult Adoption opens in Toronto this Saturday and in London and Vancouver next week, makes a meal of Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, the baroque 1989 drama starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren and Alan Howard as four people whose lives intersect at a very fancy London restaurant, with spectacularly tragic results. Your genial host Norm Wilner has a napkin round his neck already.
Actor and filmmaker Karen Knox -- whom you may know from Slo Pitch, Barbelle and Homeschooled, among others, and whose first feature Adult Adoption opens in Toronto this Saturday and in London and Vancouver next week, is here to make a meal of Peter Greenaway's baroque 1989 breakthrough The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, in which Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren and Alan Howard play four people whose lives intersect at a very fancy London restaurant, with spectacularly tragic results. Your genial host Norm Wilner has a napkin round his neck already.