The Menu (2022)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 107m
Director: Mark Mylod
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau
Synopsis:
Food critics and the super rich gathering at an exclusive island restaurant for a unique gastronomic experience get more than they bargained for. The presiding Master Chef, however, notices a last-minute change to the guest list which upsets his carefully arranged 'menu'.
Review:
It would seem that the makers have ingested a rich diet of Peter Greenaway films before coming up with this highly formalised entertainment, which affects to be about our relationship to food and the planet, but is really more about theatre, manipulation and lashings of style. The premise may be hard to swallow, and the development may contain more holes than a Swiss cheese, but there is much to delight the eye in both mise en scène and performance. The sommelier's wine introductions are a masterpiece of parody, and the menu descriptions are witty in themselves, even if course number two, the 'unaccompanied accompaniments', comes close to being a metaphor for the entire enterprise.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 107m
Director: Mark Mylod
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau
Synopsis:
Food critics and the super rich gathering at an exclusive island restaurant for a unique gastronomic experience get more than they bargained for. The presiding Master Chef, however, notices a last-minute change to the guest list which upsets his carefully arranged 'menu'.
Review:
It would seem that the makers have ingested a rich diet of Peter Greenaway films before coming up with this highly formalised entertainment, which affects to be about our relationship to food and the planet, but is really more about theatre, manipulation and lashings of style. The premise may be hard to swallow, and the development may contain more holes than a Swiss cheese, but there is much to delight the eye in both mise en scène and performance. The sommelier's wine introductions are a masterpiece of parody, and the menu descriptions are witty in themselves, even if course number two, the 'unaccompanied accompaniments', comes close to being a metaphor for the entire enterprise.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 107m
Director: Mark Mylod
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau
Synopsis:
Food critics and the super rich gathering at an exclusive island restaurant for a unique gastronomic experience get more than they bargained for. The presiding Master Chef, however, notices a last-minute change to the guest list which upsets his carefully arranged 'menu'.
Review:
It would seem that the makers have ingested a rich diet of Peter Greenaway films before coming up with this highly formalised entertainment, which affects to be about our relationship to food and the planet, but is really more about theatre, manipulation and lashings of style. The premise may be hard to swallow, and the development may contain more holes than a Swiss cheese, but there is much to delight the eye in both mise en scène and performance. The sommelier's wine introductions are a masterpiece of parody, and the menu descriptions are witty in themselves, even if course number two, the 'unaccompanied accompaniments', comes close to being a metaphor for the entire enterprise.