Flux Gourmet

“It’s like a Restoration comedy run through a John Waters filter and sprinkled with Luis Buñuel itching powder.” The New York Times

The king of British weird returns! Every one of Peter Strickland’s films creates a strikingly new world, while also weaving a consistent thread of the sensuous, the uncanny and the unthinkable. After his fetish fantasia The Duke of Burgundy and his department store nightmare In Fabric, comes Flux Gourmet, a return to the world of sound after the blood-curdling Berberian Sound Studio.

Taking us to a research centre for “sonic cooking”, we are introduced to a creative collective who look to coax sound from salmon mousse. A madhouse presided over by Jan (Gwendoline Christie), the strange complaints of the musicians and personnel – including Asa Butterfield, Fatma Mohamed, Richard Bremmer, Makis Papadimitriou and Ariane Labed – give this a fevered, hilarious feel. For lovers of the films of Peter Greenaway and anyone who has psychic visions during Masterchef.

Cast includes Gwendoline Christie, Ariane Labed, Asa Butterfield

Directed by Peter Strickland

Cert 15