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Short Order (2005)
If food is life, should one give their life for food?, 24 July 2008
Author: lastliberal from Florida
Before The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Mr. Bean's Holiday or The Science of Sleep, there was Short Order. While it has just reached our shores a couple of months ago, it is not a new film. It is, however, a film for those who like fantasy and lightness and beauty.
Of course, the great beauty in all the films mentioned is Emma de Caunes, the star of this film; a short order cook who is actually a great chef, but is afraid to step out and let the world judge her. De Caunes is enjoyable in every film I have seen above, and she is most enjoyable here.
Running a close second is her friend in the film, played by Cosma Shiva Hagen, whom I have not seen before, but certainly want to search out.
The rest of the cast, which included John Hurt and Vanessa Redgrave, as well as an enchanting Tatiana Ouliankina in her first film added to this strange fantasy about life and food in a way that can only be appreciated by viewing; mere words do their performances no justice.
There are two themes running throughout: one the quest for the whale al la Moby Dick, and the continual referencing of sex and food. It is quite hilarious to hear those references, and made the film well worth watching.
For Emma de Caunes fans for sure, 17 May 2008
Author: zvelf-1 from United States
SHORT ORDER is a lot like a crass Jean-Pierre Jeunet film. It's filled with vignettes trying to link food to sex. So we have Jon Polito describing mending pizza dough in the same way he would touch a woman and we see a chef from behind furiously beating eggs and looking a lot like, well, you figure it out. There's also plenty of college freshman-level existential philosophizing, Moby Dick references, and allusions to classic Hollywood musicals. The movie is not all that overall, but it did confirm for me that Emma de Caunes is the most beautiful actress currently working, and co-star Cosma Shiva Hagen might be a pretty close second.
a pretentious film that is neither particularly illuminating nor is it enjoyable, 10 November 2007
Author: jgrady-5 from United States
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
If this film has a thread it is Moby Dick, which is sometimes drawn out in a heavy handed fashion, and at other just opaque. Add to that lots and lots allusions to other films, all the way from Eating Raul to Singing in the Rain, plus tedious philosophic soliloquies, and you have a romp of sorts through sex and food, culminating of course, in cannibalism. The principal characters were not engaging nor fleshed out in any compelling way. Their progress though the film is meandering at best, with the action broken by tasteless commentary on food, sex and women, by chefs who we are asked to believe are being interviewed by for a new program or documentary. I am astonished that it has received such positive reviews
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