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Taste [Available Feb. 16 via streaming on MUBI.] Overly dark atmosphere pervades Lê B?o's award-winning, highly unusual, visually creative, slow-paced, avant-garde, 97-minute, 2021 film with sparse dialogue, austere sets, scrumptious food, and copious nudity in which a Nigerian football player (Olegunleko Ezekiel Gbenga), who has a young son in Africa and was fired from the team after he breaks his right leg, is forced into the slums of Saigon where he works at a barbershop and joins a household of four middle-aged Vietnamese women (Khuong Thi Minh Nga, Le Thi Dung, Nguyen Thi Cam Xuan, and Vu Thi Tham Thin) who accept their losses, lack of hope for the future, and their fate, which are all symbolized by the dispensing of their clothes while at home, but they are able to successfully go through the daily motions of trying to survive; most Westerners will not easily identify with this film.
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Taste on the Internet Movie Database
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