Review of Family Dinner

Those pictures in the book depicted myths where the parent is eating it's children. So it wasn't just feasting on other people, they were feasting on their own babies. Fun fact, at one point during the movie Simi (the girl) opens a book that her aunt was reading and notices some very disturbing images. Those drawings are real, and they are from a man named Francisco Goya, a Spanish painter in the 17th Century. Starts off with enough awkward energy and ominous atmosphere to make your knees buckle. Had me thinking this film was gonna get spooky. Then it shifts into a rather uneventful slowburn psychological drama dealing with shady family dynamics. It builds tension steadily and makes you think it's gonna have an explosive climax then it just whimpers to a close. There is a scene of gnarly imagery but that's about it.