Finger Food: Gaul’s Latest Effort Staunchly Unappetizing
Spanish filmmaker Roger Gaul (known for his 2002 debut, the co-directed Smoking Room) returns with this Irish co-produced venture, Tasting Menu, its cast dictated primarily by geographic funding. Utilizing the banal workings of several intersecting storylines over the course of one evening, this petit bourgeois offering is as unabashedly pretentious as it is stilted, attempting to jackdaw cinematic magic via food porn and various romantic clichés. Several notable cast members are as poorly served as their lesser known counterparts, an ensemble that can’t ever emulsify as neatly as Javier Clavo’s screenplay so desperately wants it to.
Chef Mar (Vicenta N’Dongo) is a reluctant celebrity in her realm, owner of a highly successful restaurant that seats only thirty and is booked for months in advance. However, after finding herself in a creative rut, she decides to close the restaurant, much to...
Spanish filmmaker Roger Gaul (known for his 2002 debut, the co-directed Smoking Room) returns with this Irish co-produced venture, Tasting Menu, its cast dictated primarily by geographic funding. Utilizing the banal workings of several intersecting storylines over the course of one evening, this petit bourgeois offering is as unabashedly pretentious as it is stilted, attempting to jackdaw cinematic magic via food porn and various romantic clichés. Several notable cast members are as poorly served as their lesser known counterparts, an ensemble that can’t ever emulsify as neatly as Javier Clavo’s screenplay so desperately wants it to.
Chef Mar (Vicenta N’Dongo) is a reluctant celebrity in her realm, owner of a highly successful restaurant that seats only thirty and is booked for months in advance. However, after finding herself in a creative rut, she decides to close the restaurant, much to...
- 4/18/2014
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Magnolia Pictures has released the trailer and poster for its upcoming film "Tasting Menu," directed by Spanish filmmaker Roger Gual ("Smoking Room"). The film takes place on the last night of "the world's best restaurant," which is closing, but not before serving a final elaborate meal to a group of guests that includes a couple (Claudia Bassols and Jan Cornet) who booked a reservation a year in advance, and who in the time since have split up. The film also stars Stephen Rea and Fionnula Flanagan, and it played at 2013's Hawaii International Film Festival. It hits theaters April 18.
- 2/28/2014
- by Max O'Connell
- Indiewire
Today in news that may have briefly gotten me fired (again) for taunting the editor (again), we find out that Neil Patrick Harris has been cast as the “lead human” in the new live action/CGI Smurfs movie. Nph later confirmed this via Twitter, promising the upset Spurf™ to do his Smurfiest. I have to admit to a bit of cynicism, especially since it’s been said that the Smurf village is in Central Park.
Wondering what Senator Pretty Boy is doing now that he’s leaving Brothers & Sisters? Turns out he’s heading to Parks & Recreation on NBC to spread his particular brand of joy. I’m fine with this – I don’t watch Parks & Recreation, and unless he’s playing a gay penguin, I don’t have to care.
John Barrowman is a busy, busy man. He’s got a new CD out. He’s got an evil...
Wondering what Senator Pretty Boy is doing now that he’s leaving Brothers & Sisters? Turns out he’s heading to Parks & Recreation on NBC to spread his particular brand of joy. I’m fine with this – I don’t watch Parks & Recreation, and unless he’s playing a gay penguin, I don’t have to care.
John Barrowman is a busy, busy man. He’s got a new CD out. He’s got an evil...
- 3/4/2010
- by lostinmiami
- The Backlot
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