Dressed to swill, are we? To an atmosphere of cruelty and cuisine, Jean Paul Gaultier supplied couture. Gaultier's postmodern runway designs were influenced by cinema fantasy, and he gives back in kind. His fanciful costumes, combining space-age with Middle Ages, are not accents but essence to this film's tasteless flavor, from the Dickensian kitchen to the Dutch Renaissance dining room of its restaurant setting. Helen Mirren is Georgina, wife of gangster and would-be gourmand (if he could pronounce it) Albert Spica (Michael Gambon). He holds court while she plays hide the saucisse with a visitor from another table. Gaultier's mostly red and black, vaguely S&M designs for Georgina tweak the serious forties and the gay nineties in equal measure, but woe betide the wife who forgets her push-up bra in the trysting place. A word of caution to the squeamish because, as Spica says, "the naughty bits and the dirty bits are so closely related." (JB)