The movie is Rob and Amir’s quest to find our porcine scene-stealer, but it is also a comment on the ruthlessness of the restaurant business and, without being antithetical, the sensuality of food. Sarnoski shoots the cooking and degustation scenes like he was directing “Babette’s Feast” – the poring of red wine into a red wine glass has a visual and aural sensation that is well, delicious.
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The role is a bit of a cliche, but Ellis invests it with such power, love, and grace that you never doubt her character. And she has a few wonderful heart-to-heart moments with Smith. Slowly but surely, she walks away with the acting honors. But kudos must also be given to Jon Bernthal who plays the sisters second (Tony Goldwyn plays their first) professional coach, Florida-based Rick Macci.
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But there is another astonishing element to this film and that is Amins’s sexuality. Knowing that he is gay from an early age, his view of society and his displacement to foreign lands is, therefore, seen and experienced from the point of view of a double outsider. This also leads to some very funny situations – the film is always buoyant and life-affirming even at it’s bleakest moments.
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It’s 1981, ten years before the fall of South Africa’s apartheid system and sixteen-year-old Nicholas (Kai Luke Brummer) is leaving to serve his two years of military conscription required of all white men. Nicholas is gay (moffie is a derogatory word for gay in Afrikaan) and it is essential that he keeps this a secret from everyone even if he is surrounded by the homoeroticism of military training…..
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Dev Patel is Gawain, not quite yet a sir, the nephew of King Arthur (Sean Harris) and Queen Guinevere (Kate Dickie) and the son of Morgan Le Fay (Sarita Choudhury), who practices witchcraft. The bulk of the movie centers on Gawain’s journey across the wet, verdant English countryside (the film was actually filmed around Cahir castle in Ireland).
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