Food in Film

When we prepare a meal, it becomes more than the sum of its parts. The extra ingredient is our love. Food has its own metaphysics-----think of the great Danish film, Babette’s Feast, which illustrated this beautifully, showing the transformative power of food and the sharing of
it, in the ritual of the dinner table. Or think of Ang Lee’s wonderful Chinese film Eat Drink, Man Woman, which placed food at the centre of family life, highly charged with metaphorical meaning. As the family’s fortunes changed with the passing of time, the only constant was the ritual of the dining table where the two daughters ate the meals their father cooked for them. In the film Chocolat, Juliet Binoche’s character healed a whole village of its repressed mean-spiritedness with the hand-made chocolates, which she created with love and care. The Mexican book, Like Water for Chocolate, which was also made into a film, explored, through magic realism, how food is always more than just food. And in the recent film Waitress, we see how a pie is so much more than just a pie and always more than the sum of its parts!

Blessings on your table!
The Intellectual Foodie
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