🎬: “The Menu” (2022)
Platform : @charlestheatre / In Theatres Now
Director : Mark Mylod
Writers : Seth Reiss and Will Tracy
🍿: It’s giving … fine dining and breathing, anxiety, delicious, Bergamot, don’t be a Tyler, the rich man’s Hell’s Kitchen .
🤓 : “The Menu” is super solid. A great — yet weird — time. Ultimately, a worthwhile watch. Throughout the film, like the characters, I was anxious to know the next course. In “The Menu”, we explore an artist’s yearning to have his work be loved — not for hype, but for its reverence for the craft. The film is filled with spot-on social commentary, humor, and unnerving moments similar to what i experienced when watching “Parasite”.
The film itself is self aware and unpretentious. The audience it’s taking jabs at — not so much. This film is a perfect balance between a “movie movie” and an “art film”. Margot mills played by the queen herself, Anya Taylor-Joy was great . Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes) and top dawg Elsa (Hong Chau) also lit up the screen.
They spiced up our lives… effortlessly peeled back the layers of their characters… sautéed our senses with subtle notes in facial expression… and moved with the precision of chiffonade vegetables.
*I know very 🧀 -y. Makes you want to throw a 🍅. Okay I’m done.*
As to not spoil the film, I’ll end it here. “The Menu” captivating and sickeningly funny throughout. Despite all that was happening, the food looked really good. Does this make me a deeply disturbed person ? Am I a part of the problem ? Food for thought, for my next therapist.
Original post from IG : @nikkiabban
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