IMDb plot summary: A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.
Directed by Mark Mylod. Starring Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Nicholas Hoult.
The Menu takes place over one evening in the kind of high-level dining establishment that people wait in line to get into for years, if they ever get in at all. Ralph Fiennes plays the head chef putting forth his new avant-garde menu, and Anya Taylor-Joy plays an obsessed foodie's much less interested date, and they are the centerpieces around which the story is told as the menu takes a darker turn. This is far from a subtle satire, but I had a great time with it nonetheless. It's a fun, gruesome take on class warfare and art that becomes so abstract it erases humanity. It also latched onto the vibe of a really fun slasher movie, where you know the killer IS going to strike again, it's just a matter of trying to guess who and how and when. I also have to give a quick shoutout to Nicholas Hoult, who is always good but who absolutely nails it as the obnoxious fan fawning over Fiennes' every move. And, of course, I have to praise the cinematography, which focuses on the food (in all its various forms) in a way that really taps into the smell and taste senses that can be so difficult to convey in film. I enjoyed this one a lot.
How it entered my Flickchart:
The Menu > Bad Education
The Menu < Elf
The Menu > Cafe Society
The Menu > Date Night
The Menu > The Secret Garden (1987)
The Menu > Beyond the Sea
The Menu > Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken
The Menu < Till Death
The Menu > A Room With a View
The Menu > The Palm Beach Story
The Menu > Tower
Final spot: #961 out of 3781, or 75%.
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