Review: The wickedly funny 'Flux Gourmet' serves up food, poop, orgies, satire — and soul
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Jun 23, 2022
3 minutes
I counted only one audible fart in "Flux Gourmet," which seems a curious show of restraint for a movie in which sound and scatology play such important roles. A wondrously demented study in creative, sexual and gastrointestinal struggle, this latest art-horror-comedy whatsit from the Hungary-based English filmmaker Peter Strickland unfolds at the Sonic Catering Institute, a fortress of higher learning devoted to the "artistic pursuit of alimentary and culinary salvation." That's amusingly high-flown language for a bunch of performance artists who stick microphones in pots and pans, amplifying the sounds of bubbling stew, sizzling
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