The restaurant at the heart of this heady recipe is Hawthorne, a fabulously expensive establishment run by the demanding, precise Chef Slowik (Ralph Fiennes, sharp as carbon steel) from a private island where all the ingredients are local and a seat at the table will set you back more than a grand. The list of ingredients is long, the techniques complex, but everything is whipped like egg whites into something so light and airy you barely notice the bitterness until it smacks you in the teeth. Yes, the enigmatic master chef at the heart of film is playing with the raw materials of life and death on his plates-seafood, fungi, roast chicken, flash-frozen microgreens and plenty of artful foam-but the menu he’s developed, and the film that depicts it, is also dealing with the raw materials of human human life and death. Food, he tells us, is the purest and best art form, because a great chef’s medium is “the raw materials of life and death.” Like just about every piece of dialogue in the film, written with fiendish joy by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, it’s both funny in the moment and unexpectedly profound in the larger context of The Menu’s dark game. Stars: Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Judith Light, John LeguizamoĮarly in The Menu, director Mark Mylod’s beautiful, intricate dark comedy set amid the trappings of exclusive restaurant culture, a character explains that, for him, art doesn’t matter. The Menu HBO Release Date: Janu(Originally released November 18, 2022) As much as this amateur trio is rehabilitating the birds, they are-in a sense-being rescued themselves. The brothers’ relentless passion overrides an awkward tone that carries through All That Breathes. The documentary uses the brothers and their relationship with the carrion birds as metaphors for the state of the environmental and political climate of India’s capital, forming a subtle subtext to the main account. They carry out their bird rehabilitation operation, called Wildlife Rescue, out of the basement of their family’s liquid soap dispenser manufacturing office. As a result, the brothers ended up treating injured birds that they continued to find, with some help from other local vets and based on their own interest and knowledge. And so, the hospital told Saud and Shehzad that they could not treat the meat-eating bird. Ahimsa, the practice of non-violence and compassion towards all life, forms the core of Jainism. On finding one such injured kite, the brothers took it to a bird hospital run by people of the Jain faith. However, these razor-sharp strings can be fatal to birds, slashing their wings and sending them careening from the skies, especially during the later summer and fall months when kite-flying is at its peak. The string, called manja, used in the paper kites is usually coated with glass particles, in order to cut and capture another person’s kite. These scavenger birds were often prey to another kind of kite-the paper ones commonly flown as a lazy weekend pastime or to mark festive occasions. The brothers, former bodybuilders who grew up in the Chawri Bazaar area of Old Delhi, started treating injured black kites in 1997 out of necessity. There have been other stories about the amateur medic duo, along with their assistant Salik Rehman, but none as lyrical as this documentary.
All That Breathes HBO Release Date: February 3, 2023Īll That Breathes, a documentary by Shaunak Sen about two brothers-Muhammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad-in New Delhi who say they have saved more than 20,000 kites (an Indian bird of prey) over the last two decades, is enchanting.
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