Jídlo (1993)

BREAKFAST: After eating breakfast, a man is transformed into an elaborate dumb-waiter-style breakfast dispenser - and the same fate befalls the man who obtains breakfast from him. LUNCH: ... See full summary »

Director:

Jan Svankmajer

Writer:

Jan Svankmajer

Stars:

Ludvík Sváb, Bedrich Glaser, Jan Kraus

Cast

Credited cast:
Ludvík Sváb	...	Eater
Bedrich Glaser	...	Eater
Jan Kraus	...	Eater
Pavel Marek	...	Eater
Josef Fiala	...	Eater
Karel Hamr	...	Eater
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jaromír Kallista	...	Eater

Storyline

BREAKFAST: After eating breakfast, a man is transformed into an elaborate dumb-waiter-style breakfast dispenser - and the same fate befalls the man who obtains breakfast from him. LUNCH: After failing to catch the waiter's eye, two would-be diners end up eating everything within reach. DINNER: Portraits of various meals made up of human organs.

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Plot Keywords:

coin | food | one word title | surrealism | stop motion scene | 

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Genres:

Animation | Short | Comedy | Fantasy

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Details

Country:

Czechoslovakia UK

Release Date:

13 April 1994 (USA)

Also Known As:

Food

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

17 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

References The Gold Rush (1925)

User Reviews

Fountain of Corpulence

This is an okay Svankmajer short that comes with Conspirators of Pleasure on the Kino DVD release.

It's worth seeing for that movie but seems much longer than it actually it is.

What's interesting is how each chapter seems to deliberately pare itself down in the level of detail given each chapter. The first segment, "Breakfast" is uniform in it's depiction of each actor's "meal". "Lunch" (the most obviously meaningful of the three) moves along a bit faster and "Dinner" just crams as many brief encounters into a couple minutes as possible.

Svankmajer, it would seem, is pretty serious about breakfast and pretty lazy by dinnertime, but I like Dinner the best.

7 out of 10