Maybe it is a costal thing, but I just saw this film in San Francisco and was totally mesmerized. Tilda Swinton is able to convey ideas and emotion with less effort than any other actor around. You never see her "acting." The director has a mastery of pacing that kept me hanging on every moment. Her supporting cast was phenomenal. That the settings, music and yes, the food seemed to exist in a hightened reality did not seem to me to be pretentious, but more a stylistic choice to create a canvas upon which the action and human conflict had greater impact. Needless to say, I would recommend it.
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