B | An exclusive restaurant's latest seating takes a dark turn. Directed by Mark Mylod Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Fiennes, and Nicholas Hoult Review by Jon Kissel |
The best scene in Pig, one of 2021’s best films, finds a reclusive but still renowned chef played by Nicolas Cage sitting down in a molecular gastronomy restaurant. Cage’s character is not there to eat, but to find his titular pet, and he interrogates the restaurant’s chef about its whereabouts while also dissecting the chef’s career path. The chef used to dream of opening a cozy gastropub, but now he toils in a white-coat lab, serving foams and smokes to Portland’s status-obsessed and life-draining succubi. One year later, that character becomes the antagonist in The Menu, a film that was in production when audiences watched Pig. The Menu serves up a similar admiration for the service industry and a hatred towards those they serve, while adding on a hefty dose of black comedy and a continuous stream of reveals in one of 2022’s most delicious films.
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