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Nourriture

Original title: Jídlo
  • 1992
  • 16+
  • 14m
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
3.8K
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Nourriture (1992)
SatireStop Motion AnimationAnimationComedyFantasyShort

Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.Examines the human relationship with food by showing breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

  • Director
    • Jan Svankmajer
  • Writer
    • Jan Svankmajer
  • Stars
    • Ludvík Sváb
    • Bedrich Glaser
    • Jan Kraus
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.0/10
    3.8K
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    • Director
      • Jan Svankmajer
    • Writer
      • Jan Svankmajer
    • Stars
      • Ludvík Sváb
      • Bedrich Glaser
      • Jan Kraus
    • 17User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Ludvík Sváb
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    Bedrich Glaser
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    Jan Kraus
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    Pavel Marek
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    Josef Fiala
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    Karel Hamr
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    Jaromír Kallista
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    David Lhotak
    Vaclav Livora
    Marie Zemanová
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      • Jan Svankmajer
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      • Jan Svankmajer
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    7lee_eisenberg

    Just eat it!

    Jan Svankmajer has portrayed many wacky things, but "Jidlo" is a whole new level. Portraying bizarre things happening during each meal, he goes all out. The first vignette "Breakfast" seems to be a slight repeat of his earlier movie "Et Cetera". The most eye-opening vignette is "Lunch", in which two men at a table can't get the waiter's attention, and resort to eating their plates, utensils, clothes, and even the table...but they don't intend to stop there. With "Dinner", Svankmajer decides to be grosser than the Farrelly brothers could ever dream of being.

    Maybe this isn't Svankmajer's best movie ever, but it's still worth seeing.
    9planktonrules

    He's outdone himself again!!!

    Jan Svankmajer is the most unusual stop-motion filmmaker whose work I have seen. Instead of the typical models which are brought to life using this method, Svankmajer takes everyday objects or creepy stuff he's found, perhaps, in antique shops to create films that are truly unique.

    I hate reviewing the films of Jan Svanmajer, as each time I see one of his films I am convinced that it's THE weirdest film the man has ever made. And yet, time and again, I find I am wrong, as some other film of his turns out to be even weirder. This is definitely true of "Food"--a truly bizarre and fanciful film that is really impossible to describe--you just need to see it for yourself. I will TRY to briefly explain what the film is like. As in other Svankmajer films, this one uses stop-motion but in this film it's mostly to animate people--making them move in a very jerky and robotic manner. What, exactly, they do is beyond belief but always involves the eating process. It consists of a segment about several different meals and all are VERY creative and ultra-strange--so strange that you might want to show this one to others. And, unlike a few of his films, this one is okay to show to most kids--it's creepy but in a very cartoony way. And, interestingly, it also uses some claymation which is blended into the characters. Very much worth seeing--especially if you are a bit weird yourself (which I happily am). I assume that this is NOT for everyone's taste.

    Not to be missed!
    8Johnny-the-Film-Sentinel-2187

    Darkly comical and unsettlingly spot-on... with food!

    Food is like a surreal comedy horror that comments on humanity's relationship with food, all through the lens of Jan Svankmajer's filmmaking lens of stop-motion and live-action mixing, making up for some truly fever-dream-like stories! For a short film it's got a lot of story in its three brief sequences: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner.

    Food is probably one of the truest films about dining, and possibly one of the greatest criticisms of communism encouraging people 'eating off each-other' (at least that's my interpretation of the Breakfast segment); Lunch's critique of classism in that regard is also very sharp, and Dinner's indulgence of 'eating your own body parts' is comically dark stuff at its finest.

    The 1990s were really a remarkable time for stop-motion cinema and Food was something of a radical film in a post-Wallace-&-Gromit world (A Grand Day Out was released in 1989). Also it was an achievement for the Czech Republic finally breaking free from its communist trappings and restrictions on filmmaking.

    Food is good stuff; it's plentiful and satirical on what it's covering, and shows the cross-quadrant world of dining and how every experience says something about the consumer (and their priorities) and what they do to get by.

    Food is a 4/5 star film. 8/10 IMDb points. It's not for everyone, but it certainly says a lot about all of us. It's like a cerebral stop-motion film. And a good one at that.
    elmohead

    Food is easily eaten, but challenging to digest.

    This film is one of the tightest most beautiful short films I have seen, as well as being one that truly forces you to think . From an animator who has delivered so many incredible films ,I see this as a true center piece for his constant trials with censorship authorities. Using food itself as a social commentary for poverty and oppression, Jan is able to make us both visually intrigued while still delivering an intellectual point,something rare in todays world of film.
    9heitor_caramez

    "A distorted reality is now a necessity to be free."

    What strikes me about this movie it is how little I can give to make much sense of it. I guess it has some social comments on it, about our consumption and our consumerism society, on life and everything else. But most importantly, it doesn't really matter, you get to just experience, pay attention and to be in that state of not getting it. I think that might be the experience to have, unlearning things. Turning them upside down, to transform them. In a personal level it affected me, after seeing a sequence of his shorts and this one, to be more conscious on how we act and driven our desires, you know that feeling of salivating when you think about a bacon sandwich, it has stopped, and it was interesting to be that far apart, to change that programming to one that wasn't completely destructive and irrational.

    All this conversation, reminded me of that Elliott Smith song called, "A distorted reality is now a necessity to be free."

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    • Trivia
      The "instruction card" in the Breakfast segment appears to actually be an instructions-for-entry form for an unidentified international animation festival. Although the text is partially erased and obscured, you can make out references to entries, storyboards, VHS and U-Matic videotape, ability to compete, authorship, and dates (November 1991-November 1992 and an October submission deadline).
    • Goofs
      During breakfast, when the man wipes his face with a napkin, his glasses disappear.
    • Connections
      Featured in Midnight Underground: The Surreal (1993)

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    • Release date
      • June 8, 1992 (Czechoslovakia)
    • Countries of origin
      • Czechoslovakia
      • United Kingdom
    • Language
      • None
    • Also known as
      • Food
    • Production companies
      • Koninck Studios
      • Heart of Europe Prague K Productions
      • Channel 4 Television Corporation
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      14 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono

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