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Flux Gourmet

2022

Peter Strickland

Efthymis Papadimitriou, Fatma Mohamed, Gwendoline Christie, Asa Butterfield ...

5.6

412

Comedy. Drama Set at an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds themselves embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas and gastrointestinal disorders.

	Author	Review
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"As usual, Strickland has made a sumptuous meal out of social impropriety —a strange cinematic delicacy about the discomforts that need to be shared so that others don’t have to be stomached"	POS
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"His funniest yet (...) Feels like a culmination of Strickland's fascinations and themes to date (...) The film's unique personality comes from its meticulous design, in everything from costume to sound"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Stylish and deeply odd (...) 'Flux Gourmet' may yet have a claim to cult-favourite status, but Strickland has given us a stronger, realer taste in the past (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"Strickland builds his own worlds with such a distinctive style —down to the fonts, the bilious shades of green and the textures of the silks— that the viewer can't help feeling pulled into his crazy maelstrom of quirk"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"Strickland's highly self-conscious style adds a distracting level of artifice to everything, so audiences never imagine that what they're watching is anything other than staged for their benefit"	NEU
United States	Anna Smith Deadline	"Strickland has delivered another delicious character-driven drama that balances the amusingly surreal with the uncomfortably real —and it's a wild and witty ride"	POS
United States	Charles Bramesco The Playlist	"His most bizarre, possibly best, film (...) This is Strickland's grand act of prestidigitation; he coaxes out something like poignancy from the peculiar, just as he conjures the visceral and unknowable from ordinary groceries"	POS
United States	Pat Brown Slant	"Strickland's playful mockery of performance art and excessively serious-minded 'collectives' feels both insular and, at times, a shade too flavorless (...) Charming, quirky, and fun enough to look at (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	David Katz The Film Stage	"[It] is arguably the first instance where Peter Strickland, who's always seemed inches away from a real career breakthrough, has had the storyline and structure to make something as good as his posters and loglines promise"	POS
United States	Craig D. Lindsey rogerebert.com	"Honestly, I don't know the answer to most of the questions in this strange movie. But I'd be lying if I say I wasn't intrigued by it most of the time (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Lou Thomas Time Out	"Another compellingly strange blend of the hilarious and the horrifying Peter Strickland has concocted here (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Martin Kudlac Screen Anarchy	"Visually seducing, subversively weird, sonically disturbing, and absurdly comic, 'Flux Gourmet' is en route to cult status"	POS
United States	Dave White The Wrap	"Thick with visual humor and not above florid, absurdist critique of its subject matter, but it never lands with a thud on the trite side of satire aimed at art-world excess"	NEU
Canada	Nadir Samara Screen Rant	"The themes of artistry and pretension are perfectly executed (...) A whirlwind and a welcome critique of exhibitionism. Strickland's direction and script are constantly extenuating each other (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Josh Bell CBR	"Sometimes all that 'Flux Gourmet' has to go on is that visual style, since the surreal narrative is full of inexplicable developments (...) A unique, flavorful experience"	NEU
United States	Justin Chang Los Angeles Times	"An aural and visual feast in which food itself is relentlessly scrutinized and even defamiliarized (...) It's all in terrible taste. It's also delicious"	POS
United States	Gary M. Kramer Salon	"Strickland maintains an unflinching tone throughout the film, and he is ably abetted by his cast. 'Flux Gourmet' is highly satisfying for adventurous filmgoers"	POS
United States	Lex Briscuso SlashFilm	"The biggest issue I take with 'Flux Gourmet', a film I mostly enjoyed for its audaciousness and dedication to a stylized concept, is that it is billed as a black comedy horror film"	NEU
United States	Joshua Rothkopf Entertainment Weekly	"An incredulous smile fixes on your face while watching the wonderfully weird 'Flux Gourmet'"	POS
United States	John Serba Decider	"Relentlessly gross and wickedly funny"	POS
United States	Jordan Hoffman AV Club	"Imagine how hard it is to create meaningful (and commercially viable) soundscapes from from smeared chocolate icing. That 'Flux Gourmet' ends up being such a rich text is truly surreal"	POS
United States	Meagan Navarro Bloody Disgusting	"'Flux Gourmet' offers a smorgasbord of commentary, leaving viewers with a lot to chew on -not all of it so easily digestible. It's the precise type of strange that's divisive, but so is art itself (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	John Nugent Empire	"A brilliant, bizarre, occasionally grotesque, horror-inflected cinematic delicacy. Sounds like a Peter Strickland film, then (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
	Marta Bałaga Cineuropa	"Strickland seems to be mocking everyone here, always expecting a little something in return, but at the same time, he remains sympathetic to their struggles, broken relationships and a desire to create something meaningful"	POS

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