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he use of food metaphors to discuss cinematic pleasures in films directed by women is a common but tragic affiction within film criticism. A dynamic performance is ‘spicy’; a tender sex scene ‘sweet like honey’; a comedic moment functions like a great ‘palate cleanser’. Besides the undeniably sexist overtones of a vocabulary that forces women back into the kitchen, this tendency is also plainly, and ironically, gross. I have never been tempted to watch a film that
