Flux Gourmet (2022)
Directed by Peter Strickland
At an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance, a collective finds themselves embroiled in power struggles, artistic vendettas and gastrointestinal disorders.
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It is also, occasionally, where far more repellent taboos, of a kind that would not be out of place in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or The 120 Days of Sodom (1975) or Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover (1989), have been carefully contrived, much like Elle’s performances, to shock and disgust the viewer (Greenaway’s The Belly of an Architect, 1987, seems another influence, as does Greenaway’s love of rhythmic structures, ludic motifs and colour-coded stylisations).
The vegetables arrayed and miked up on a table recall the food-focused foley work depicted in Strickland’s Berberian Sound Studio (2012); the audio recording of a woman describing a person’s erotic submission to being used as a human toilet evokes the urolagnia from Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy (2014), as does the idyllic rural setting; and the hypnotic retail shopping sessions, the affair of Christie’s character with a younger man, and the cutaways to a leering character played by Richard Bremmer whenever masturbation is mentioned, all allude to Strickland’s In Fabric (2018).
Strickland, of course, is the British director behind such cockeyed fantasies as Berberian Sound Studio, The Duke of Burgundy, and In Fabric– which, if you’re doing the math, makes him one of our oddest working filmmakers.
Capturing the senses whether it’s through sound mixing in film production (“Berberian Sound Studio”), a bondage relationship (“The Duke of Burgundy”), or lethal retail (“In Fabric”), writer-director Strickland is undefeated in making a film that is distinct and almost always fascinatingly strange.
Then in The Duke of Burgundy Strickland’s attention shifted to aping the European porn/horror crossover of the early 1970s.
Flux Gourmet is the latest film from writer/director Peter Strickland ( Berberian Sound Studio , The Duke of Burgundy , In Fabric ).
Not afraid to take risks, he gained notoriety with the odd Berberian Sound Studio (2012), solidified his cult status with The Duke of Burgundy (2014), and was absolutely fabulous in the way he conceived In Fabric (2018), perhaps my favorite of his delirious digressions.