Flux Gourmet (2022)
Genre: Comedy / Horror
Duration: 111 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom / United States / Hungary
Directed by: Peter Strickland
Stars: Asa Butterfield, Gwendoline Christie and Ariane Labed
IMDb score:
5,8 (3.653)
Releasedate: 24 June 2022
Flux Gourmet plot
A well-to-do aesthete leads a creative institute and invites a culinary collective to provide the food for a month. A Greek writer is hired to report on this creative process and suffers an upset stomach. While his bowel disorders force him to face his own malaise, the collective faces internal squabbles and a few rejected candidates seeking revenge.
Actors and actresses
Billy Rubin
Jan Stevens
Lamina Propria
Elle di Elle
Stones
Dr. Glock
Technical Assistant Wim
After Dinner Voice
After Dinner Voice
After Dinner Voice
Reviews & comments
Onderhond
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- 87623 messages
- 12889 votes
Finally a really good Strickland.
To be honest, I hadn't hoped for more. Strickland was a type of A24 director to me. Interesting premises and best stylized work, but also always a bit too well-behaved and opposed by wanting to fall within the classic arthouse box. That surrender to really go wild seemed to be missing all the time.
That approach is still there, with two important exceptions. First of all the score and the sound design, which are really impressive. Nice and noisy, but also with a lot of extra messing around. In addition, the humor that is in this film, where Strickland takes a walk with the creative world, without wanting to do it too flashy or too easy.
Visually it's tight, but not quite on the same level as the music. The plot is weird, the characters too, and the film mainly lets you discover them yourself, rather than wanting to quickly sketch everything. Very cool film this, I sincerely hope that Strickland can and may continue this line.
4.0* and a extensive review
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Shadowed
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- 11421 messages
- 6719 votes
Meh.
I've only seen one other Strickland movie and I'm sure I'll see more after this one, but I think I'm just starting to give up hope around his name. Despite his own vision, I can do very little with his films. Colorful, but incredibly boring.
The good thing about the film is the clear attention to decoration as well as the acting, yet the characters constantly disappear in the visual spectacle that consists of separate actions and rituals. Certainly a Butterfield stands out in the beginning before disappearing completely into the film itself. It doesn't help that the film ultimately feels more like a mime show than a movie.
Furthermore, it takes a long time and despite the fact that what is shown is sometimes quite interesting, I can hardly enjoy it. Especially since I honestly have no idea what I'm watching half the time. There will of course be enthusiasts for it, and despite my love for visual images, I just can't do much with it. I can't connect to it in any way.
Under the layers of colorful nonsense, there will probably be a message that may have to do with the conversation at the table towards the opening of the film. Other than that, this seems to be mostly something only Strickland enjoyed when the movie was made. Pretentious and ambitious, but also confusing and tiring. I'd do my best to give my own interpretation of a movie, but it just wasn't worth it here.
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starbright boy (moderator films)
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- 22473 messages
- 5142 votes
Strickland gets further away from his debut with each film. He started with Katalin Varga and that was a tragedy of fate in Romania. He has always kept the fascination for language and sound that was already visible with that film. But here he has gone a lot further from the conventional path in an absurdist comedy in which Strickland once again makes his fascination with sound the main theme. He showcases his language fascination by making an English-language film with a voice-over in Greek. Had the idea that the film started as an idea about the producer-director relationship, but that Strickland then wrote as far away from it as possible. But don't go ask him, because Strickland hates people who find everything behind his film. The movie just feels a bit too long. And the last half hour the energy was a bit out.
Strangely enough, I have not yet seen Strickland's most famous (as the only one of his five long fiction films). Should we do it in 2023?
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