Balance of Food

The Chicago International Film Festival brings many movies from numerous countries to the big screen every October. But we're here to care about the ones that feature food. Nina's Heavenly Delights was a delightful film. It's your typical Scottish/Indian lesbian love story. The centerpiece of the film was a curry contest. Nina, our heroine, makes her curry with love, though that becomes difficult since her father has passed on. The scene where they are making the curry is marred by dealing with the romance (I will avoid details as to not spoil the story). The curry is abandoned, but the ghost of the father comes and stirs the curry (don't ask). I would argue that care for the curry, and any other cooking, is what matters. I was told to suspend logic for this movie. But I would love to see a movie where the dish is the star, not the romance. I could not sit through all of Taxidermia. This Hungarian film was rather disturbing, and I was not the only one who wanted money back. But there was a competitive eating scene that was worthwhile. These rather large men were eating soup. They were slurping from rather large vats. The eating was quite sloppy, even compared to American competitive eating contests. There are merits to the movie, but if you are squeamish, you might not like it. But I was glad to see the competitive eating scene.