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How to Cook Your Life

  • 20072007
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 1h 34m
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How to Cook Your Life (2007)
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A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday life.
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    • Edward Espe Brown
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    A quirky Zen leader, a couple followers who are way to interested in what he's saying and a load of other subtly absurd details make this film hilarious if you don't want to take it serious. You can enjoy this as a primer to Buddhism but you can also laugh at it as a showcase of some nutty Americans who might be slightly mistranslating the deep history of a foreign religion. Some scenes are so out of place like all of a sudden the cameras follow people scavenging for food and talking about the connection between American wastefulness and the Iraq war...you'll find half your brain going, "Hmmmmm, interesting" and the other half going "WTF are their talking about?"
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      • May 10, 2007 (Germany)
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      • San Francisco, California, USA
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