Flux Gourmet (18)

112 mins - United Kingdom / Hungary / United States 2022 - Dir: Peter Strickland
Starring: Asa Butterfield, Gwendoline Christie and Richard Bremmer
 
Welcome to the Sonic Catering Institute, a creative retreat for artists whose work occupies a place somewhere between avant-garde music and outré cuisine. Run by the eccentric Jan Stevens (Gwendoline Christie), the three-week workshop is playing host to a three-piece outfit comprising the severe and unbending Elle di Elle (Strickland regular Fatma Mohamed), the troubled Lamina Propria (Ariane Labed) and Jan’s soon-to-be lover Billy Rubin (Asa Butterfield). The director of Duke of Burgundy and In Fabric serves up a delectable feast of art satire and black humour, seasoned with a little autobiography.
 
“A brilliant, bizarre, occasionally grotesque, horror-inflected cinematic delicacy” Empire