Like the restaurant it displays, Menu serves multiple themes and tones as a kind of dishes throughout the film. Sometimes, Menu is a dark comedy that comments on class anxiety and capitalist greed. At other times, the film incorporates horror and dramatic tones to keep the audience guessing, especially towards the end of the film. Director Mark Mylod cited different tones and issues Menu as reasons for jumping on board.
“I think one of the things that drew us all to the project was that beautiful mix of tones that… like Anya [Taylor-Joy] said, ‘That’s quite a small target to hit.’ But we were all drawn to how specific it was,” Mylod said at a press conference. “And then I think, for me, it was a few days or weeks that we spent doing our version of rehearsals, which was basically sitting together or in small groups in a room and just talking about the themes that we were interested in in the script. both in our story and in our characters. Perhaps it was less about what we were actually saying, and more about us all tuning in by osmosis, perhaps unconsciously, in order to get to the same level.”
The cast of the movie MENU. Photographed by Eric Zachanowich. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2022 20th Century Studios All rights reserved.
Menu follows a couple (Taylor-Joy and Nicholas Hoult) who travel to a northwest Pacific island to dine at an exclusive restaurant hosted by celebrity chef Julian Slowik (Ralph Fiennes). Filled with rich, spoiled and unsympathetic guests, the restaurant becomes a house of horrors as the tension rises with each new dish. At the center of the film is Fiennes, someone Taylor-Joy praises throughout the press conference.
“Oh, what can I say about Ralph? He is the most phenomenal actor. But what is interesting is that he is so talented that whatever he wants to transform on screen, it will happen. So of course, as an audience member, you’re going to feel this terrifying presence and this fear whenever he’s there,” Taylor-Joy said. “Maybe it was our characters, maybe it’s the way we both approach acting. All of our scenes together were so warm and intimate even when we were pretty rough on each other when the stakes were pretty high. I always felt very comfortable with him and I felt like I had a very generous dance partner and we both enjoyed this bizarre intimacy. We had a good time together.”
MENU | Official trailer | Spotlight Pictures
Directed by Mylod from a screenplay by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, Menu has a strong cast of Fiennes, Taylor-Joy, Hoult, Janet McTeer, Judith Light, Hong Chau and John Leguizamo. For Leguizam, the thematic commentary on wealth, class and privilege was as timely as those elements at play in today’s society.
“Yes, I love the political and social commentary of this movie because I feel like it taps into something that’s going on, especially in America, maybe around the world,” Leguizamo said. “The disappearing middle class, and these billionaires who think they can control our democracies, control our social platforms, control us, and how they separate us and keep us out and go into their little special bubbles. I think it’s a great commentary on the privilege that’s going on in America, and entitlement and the people who create us-versus-them, and I love that they got their due in this movie.”
Anya Taylor-Joy and Ralph Fiennes in the movie MENU. Photographed by Eric Zachanowich. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2022 20th Century Studios All rights reserved
Searchlight Pictures will release Menu in theaters from November 18.
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