Food (1992)
4/10
Gross and fascinating at the same time
10 September 2015
Warning: Spoilers
This is "Jidlo" or "Food" a 16-minute animated short film by Czech filmmaking legends Jan Svankmajer. It is one of his later works and he was close to 60 when he made it. Last year he turned 80. This one here has basically a couple men sitting at the table during different times of the day, but instead of normally eating like everybody else they cause exactly that kind of mayhem that you'd expect in a Svankmajer film. They make the weirdest movies, eat their own clothes, eat body parts and just interact in the strangest manner one could imagine. It is fairly gross, but the fact that this is animation makes it watchable I guess. Still, it's a great display of Svankmajer's style, but i always have the problem with his films that I am somewhat looking for a story or an interesting plot and they almost never have these. Svankmajer is very much style over substance in my opinion and certainly not for everybody. That includes me. Not recommended.
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