A dying father serves memories for dinner — but who's really being consumed?
Reynold is dying of cancer. He uses his last meals to share them with his daughter. As the meal progresses, a ritual begins to take hold, the dishes acting as reminders of the past. Vanessa discovers who her father really is.
Acting
Laumord's final performance is devastatingly restrained
Direction
Legagneur turns dinner into near-horror ritual
Writing
Every dish is a loaded gun of memory
Director
Maryse Legagneur
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Legagneur uses Haitian culinary tradition — diri ak djon djon, griot, pain patate — as living archive, each dish encoded with specific historical and familial trauma rarely shown in diaspora cinema.
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