Movie

A Banquet

2022 · 97 min

A slow, unsettling plunge into a family's unraveling, where quiet dread and grief blur into something eerily transcendent.

Tagline: Family or famine.
Overview: Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.
How it feels: Dark, eerie, melancholic and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Grief, faith, family, isolation
Content: Mild violence, gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: grief
faith
family
isolation
identity
Places: home
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild