Flux Gourmet, the latest film from writer/director Peter Strickland, will be receiving a theatrical and VOD release courtesy of IFC Midnight sometime this summer, and a teaser trailer has arrived online to give us a look at what Strickland has in store for us. I can’t tell you what exactly is going on in this thriller, but it looks like it’s going to be quite strange and entertaining.
Apparently knowing the trailer would leave some viewers scratching their heads, IFC Midnight provided the following synopsis for Flux Gourmet:
A sonic collective who can’t decide on a name takes up a residency at an institute devoted to culinary and alimentary performance. The members Elle di Elle, Billy Rubin and Lamina Propria are caught up in their own power struggles, only their dysfunctional dynamic is furthermore exacerbated when they have to answer to the institute’s head, Jan Stevens. With the various rivalries unfolding, Stones, the Institute’s ‘dossierge’ has to privately endure increasingly fraught stomach problems whilst documenting the collective’s activities. Upon hearing of Stones’s visits to the gastroenterologist, Dr Glock, Elle coerces him into her performances in a desperate bid for authenticity. The reluctant Stones puts up with the collective’s plans to use his condition for their art whilst Jan Stevens goes to war with Elle over creative differences.
Yeah, that doesn’t make the movie sound any less strange than the trailer makes it appear.
Serena Armitage and Pietro Greppi produced Flux Gourmet, which stars Asa Butterfield (Sex Education), Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones), Richard Bremmer (The 13th Warrior), Ariane Labed (Assassin’s Creed), Leo Bill (28 Days Later), Makis Papadimitriou (In the Strange Pursuit of Laura Durand), and Fatma Mohamed, who has been in all of Strickland’s feature films to date.
Strickland’s previous credits include Katalin Varga, Berberian Sound Studio, The Duke of Burgundy, and In Fabric.
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The film will premiere as part of the Berlin Film Festival’s Encounters program on February 11th.