![]() The list of ingredients is long, the techniques complex, but everything is whipped like egg whites into something so light and airy you barely notice the bitterness until it smacks you in the teeth. Yes, the enigmatic master chef at the heart of film is playing with the raw materials of life and death on his plates-seafood, fungi, roast chicken, flash-frozen microgreens and plenty of artful foam-but the menu he’s developed, and the film that depicts it, is also dealing with the raw materials of human human life and death. Food, he tells us, is the purest and best art form, because a great chef’s medium is “the raw materials of life and death.” Like just about every piece of dialogue in the film, written with fiendish joy by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, it’s both funny in the moment and unexpectedly profound in the larger context of The Menu’s dark game. ![]() Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Judith Light, John LeguizamoĮarly in The Menu, director Mark Mylod’s beautiful, intricate dark comedy set amid the trappings of exclusive restaurant culture, a character explains that, for him, art doesn’t matter.
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