Peter Strickland’s fifth feature takes place in an art residency led by an upper-class aesthete who has invited a culinary collective to perform their “sonic catering” practice for a month. Hired to report on their creative process, a Greek writer begins to suffer from indigestion. While his intestinal disorders force him to acknowledge his own malaise, the collective is undermined by internal quarrels as well as external assaults from a group of sardonic, rejected candidates. Films have rarely taken food intolerances and human consumption so seriously, or so literally, and certainly not to such hallucinatory and nightmarish ends.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 51 min.
- Country, year
- United Kingdom, Hungary, United States, 2022
- Genre
- Drama, Horror, Comedy
- Language
- English
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian
- Age rating
- N-7
Credits
- Director
- Peter Strickland
- Screenplay
- Peter Strickland
- Producers
- Serena Armitage, Pietro Greppi
- Cinematography
- Tim Sidell
- Cast
- Asa Butterfield, Gwendoline Christie, Richard Bremmer, Ariane Labed, Leo Bill, Makis Papadimitriou, Fatma Mohamed
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
Director
Peter Strickland
Peter Strickland began directing short films in the early 1990s. After a long hiatus from filmmaking during which he created culinary soundscapes with The Sonic Catering Band, he returned to film in the early 2000s and made his first feature, Katalin Varga. Alongside further short and feature films, he has also written radio plays and has made a concert film for Björk, which he co-directed with Nick Fenton