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  Review by matt lynch ★★★★

  Strickland continues to diagram his kinks in extremely productive and hilarious ways, and this is his most self-reflexive and deliberately silly work to date. Not sure this is for anyone but me, but wow is it ever for me.

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★

  A student of vintage Euro-horror whose dreamy tales of killer dresses and kinky lepidopterists are sometimes filed away as the stuff of simple giallo fetishism (even by his fans), British filmmaker Peter Strickland may not be shy about his influences, but the echoes that reverberate throughout his work only tend to clarify the mesmeric power of his own voice. No matter how indebted to Dario Argento or Jess Franco his movies might be — no matter how removed from time these fables always are — the likes of “Berberian Sound Studio” and “In Fabric” are embossed with such palpable sensuality that they soon come to feel as singularly now and present as the touch of a velvet glove on your…

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  Review by nick ★★★★ 6

  Weird, exquisite and morbidly funny, Flux Gourmet continues Peter Strickland's offbeat brand, this time focusing equally on eating and shitting. Flux Gourmet reminds me of Peter Greenaway's equally absurd The Cook, in the most complimenting way possible.

  Chronicling a performing trio's bizarre experience at an art institute, Flux Gourmet is bonkers from the very first scene to the last, while featuring confounding, yet highly entertaining individuals and episodic vignettes in order to create a surreal, trippy world where the limit of art and creation is constantly tested and broken.

  The cast was largely excellent, and it's so refreshing to see Asa Butterfield reinventing himself while still being super cute in this, but for me, the MVP has to be Makis Papadimitriou as the eternally unease reporter suffering from IBS and hypochondria. Highly recommended.

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  Review by Cernan Mari ★★★½

  A very odd and strange film, but also very intriguing and full of art. Seriously, it's a film about an experimental band that LITERALLY uses food as instruments. Isn't that funny? What's really strange is how, after some time, it begins to make sense.

  A lot happened, but it's all played for satirical laughs, no matter how insane and/or perplexing it gets. The film isn't always effective, sometimes opting for detached observations in between scenes of performative exploration. However, when it occasionally takes on the creative perspective of its characters, it transforms into a one-of-a-kind sensory experience. I'd like to believe that Strickland's goal for this film is to be an entertaining escapade that pushes buttons, defies conventions, and makes…

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  Review by Lou (rhymes with wow!) ★★★★½ 9

  Dario Argento's Suspiria, but instead of a young woman attending a prestigious balletschool we get a Merzbow noise collective attending a "sonic catering institute" (to create electronic soundscapes/weird performance art with the use of food). Flux Gourmet has it all: intrigue, farting, backstage orgies, and Gwendoline Christie's hypnotic va-jay-jay.

  My favourite Peter Strickland movie. Very weird, very artistic and very funny.

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  Review by shookone ★★★★ 3

  really appreciate a lot that Peter Strickland dives into the psychoanalytic meta-verse without any hesitation. this has a high degree of intellectual happy time to me personally, although I can understand that most people might be rather frustrated by what's happening.

  sure, you can read it as satire about the art world, their purpose, usage, utilization and exploitation. right beneath that, you'll be able to find a dissection of the artists ego and mannerisms. also, there's more hard-to-understand aspects to it, as this might be quite close to the directors own biography. and finally, film nerds can go on about this being a homage to Greenaway, Argento, Bergman and so on. okay.

  but after all this is first and foremost…

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  Review by Frances Meh ★★★★ 2

  Yeah alright, fuck it:

  MASTERING THE FART OF FRENCH COOKING

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  Review by Kylo ★★

  Literally a movie about flatulence. Pretentious and arty to the point of complete boredom. God, Gwendoline Christie looked fabulous though.

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  Review by josh lewis ★★★ 1

  i'm a fan of the overall strickland project of turning fetish genre filmmaking into romantic psychodrama, but honestly, it might be time to bring back kink-shaming.

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  Review by Jay ★★★★½

  White people experiencing seasoned food for the first time.

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  Review by Theo ★★★½

  Story of a miserable freelance journalist suffering from acid reflux and indigested rippers. In other words - a strictly Strickland movie. Humour dealt with such a hammer blow that ur not sure whether to laugh or skulk in fear. Scathing assault on insufferable performance artists that partners v nicely with Crimes of the Future

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  Review by B E R T ½

  Horrible. Hated every single moment of it. Painful to watch.