Club Zero
Club Zero
Ohjaus:
Jessica HausnerKuvaus:
Martin GschlachtSävellys:
Markus BinderNäyttelijät:
Mia Wasikowska, Luke Barker, Ksenia Devriendt, Florence Baker, Samuel D Anderson, Gwen Currant, Sam Hoare, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Elsa Zylberstein (lisää)Juonikuvaukset(1)
Miss Novak joins the staff of an international boarding school to teach a conscious eating class. She instructs that eating less is healthy. The other teachers are slow to notice what is happening and by the time the distracted parents begin to realise, Club Zero has become a reality. (Cannes Film Festival)
Arvostelut (4)
Veganism is out – don’t eat at all and you’ll become a saint. The progressive Jessica Hausner again composes wonderful industry exteriors and interiors, this time with an industrial and pulp touch (the luxury house is incredible), and the story delves into several issues: the dangers of manipulation at the hands of a mentor, pubescent self-discovery and, ironically, the increasing adoption of emerging diet trends. Her abstract world of characters with almost Wes Anderson-esque style is playful while being both funny and serious, but it is still not mature enough to leave a deeper and lasting impression. [Cannes FF]
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From a healthy approach to lifestyle, to blindly riding the wave of modern trends, to chilling brainwashing and sectarianism. Club Zero has a very entertaining (in the black comedy sense) and thought-provoking premise that would make for a terrific eighty-minute film, the problem is that it doesn't have nearly enough depth to pull off its nearly two-hour running time. [KVIFF 2023]
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Club Zero is a mildly provocative film with a notable subject, but it comes across as only a very shallow satire that only shakily skims over the theme consisting in criticism of self-indulgent consumerism. On the one hand, it encourages a more responsible approach to eating habits, but on the other hand, it makes fun of alternative nutrition trends. Mainly, however, the film lacks sharp edges, as it doesn’t dare to get into anything that’s truly radical, nor is it in any way shocking or even unsettling. Though it is visually engaging and successfully works in places with the motifs of hypocrisy and elitism among the upper social classes and the building of a cult of personality around the schoolmistress, whose manipulative influence has harmful effects on the adolescent children, the film rather fails in other respects, as it doesn’t exploit its potential and leaves the impression of merely being a bit of festival bizarreness whose introductory warning about the explicit depiction of eating disorders is just an empty gesture.
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Jessica Hausner presented Little Joe at Cannes 2019, and Emily Beecham won Best Actress. Club Zero left Cannes this year without an award at Cannes, and yet for me it's a more accomplished film. But it's true that maybe it could have been a bit more extreme, like The Wave. Here we follow a group of students who sign up for a "mindful eating" course that ultimately leads to no eating at all. Under Ms. Novak's manipulative influence, the students are very passionate, even sectarian, about their project, and we can observe the reactions of their families. The film opens up many themes: nutrition trends, eating disorders, escalating beliefs (thoughts shape our reality, I can do anything if I think it – best portrayed in a disturbing, absurd yet brilliant vomiting scene). The film is funny, but at the same time tragic and especially brilliantly acted by the young cast. [Festival de Cannes 2023]
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