Flux Gourmet

Name: Flux Gourmet
Genre: Drama
Released: June 24, 2022
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 79
Cast: Ariane Labed, Asa Butterfield, Efthymis Papadimitriou, Fatma Mohamed, Gwendoline Christie

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IFC Midnight | Release Date: June 24, 2022 | NR

Starring: Ariane Labed, Asa Butterfield, Efthymis Papadimitriou, Fatma Mohamed, Gwendoline Christie, Leo Bill, Richard Bremmer

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

Director: Peter Strickland

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: NR

Runtime: 111 min

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Jordan Hoffman

Jun 20, 2022

Flux Gourmet is very much a “not for everyone” type of movie, but even people unwilling or unable to connect with it must recognize that it isn’t simply weird for weirdnesses sake. Beyond the obvious theme of the artist’s eternal struggle with those who offer patronage only to start shortening the leash, there’s a frank look at just how strange it is for people to come together to make art in the first place. Read full review

The Playlist Charles Bramesco

Feb 14, 2022

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. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Jun 23, 2022

The film isn’t so much an allegory or fantasy as a witty philosophical speculation on some elemental human issues. We are animals driven by lust, hunger and aggression, but also delicate creatures in love with beauty and abstraction. Those two sides of our nature collide in unexpected, infinitely variable ways. Read full review

Lou Thomas

Feb 16, 2022

The director is a huge fan of This is Spinal Tap and although Flux Gourmet isn’t up to the formidable standards of that masterpiece, it boasts one or two Stonehenge moments of its own. Read full review

Saffron Maeve

Jul 18, 2022

Flux Gourmet is all foreplay, a fairly impressive 111-minute bit with an anemic climax. Read full review

Lex Briscuso

Jun 21, 2022

Flux Gourmet is an enjoyable romp that pushes buttons, defies conventions, and makes you see food in a whole new light. I'd like to think that was exactly Strickland's goal, no matter the film's ultimate genre. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Feb 14, 2022

To call “Flux Gourmet” an acquired taste would be an understatement. It’s really more of an elaborate inside joke by Strickland on the peculiar relationship between artists and the institutions that fund, develop and encourage their folly. Read full review

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kirkender

Jan 2, 2023

Flux Gourmet is billed as "not for everyone," but also as a genius satirical black comedy. I am in the "everyone" category. This film is very pleased with itself for being so smart and funny. I couldn't tell what was supposed to be funny and what was supposed to be serious; most of the timeFlux Gourmet is billed as "not for everyone," but also as a genius satirical black comedy. I am in the "everyone" category. This film is very pleased with itself for being so smart and funny. I couldn't tell what was supposed to be funny and what was supposed to be serious; most of the time I was trying to understand what the flip people were talking about. By the end I was intensely bored. If I were younger, I think i would have loved it because it made people bored and confused, but alas, I am the bored and confused one.… Expand

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alaskantrout

Feb 6, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Weird in one of the worst ways possible. Though it may be satire, Flux Gourmet just stumbles on itself, ending up as frown-provoking. The flatulences of a Greek man are close to the plot's core, suggesting a 5 year-old may have been involved in the screenwriting process. I spent most of the movie looking forward to its end, and left the theatre feeling queasy - this is the first time in my life a film has made me physically sick. Some of the only decently entertaining moments are the improv theatre exercises where the characters, playing snobbish meta-characters with refined tastes, navigate an imaginary supermarket looking for rare delicacies - and even these felt a bit over-the-top in a way. Please save yourself the pain of watching this - the face of the institute's director and her absence of eyebrows might follow you into your nightmares.… Expand

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