2007 · drama · comedy · mystery
Estômago: A Gastronomic Story
Directed by Marcos Jorge1h 53m2007
In a dog-eat-dog world, Raimundo Nonato has found an alternative way to move ahead: he cooks. No matter what social strata this deceptively innocent young man inhabits, he hones his skills and sharpens his knives—and then he falls in love. Jorge's nimble comic fable provides a smartly constructed gastronomic allegory for ambition and survival.
Our read: Estômago: A Gastronomic Story (2007) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · comedy · mystery entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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