All You Can Eat Buddha (Ian Lagarde, 2017) Canada, Cuba

Reviewed by Hugo Paxlind. Viewed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, 2018.

Mike arrives at an all inclusive in the Carribean makes some friends including a talking octopus a woman with a crush on him and a salsa teacher who doesn’t seem to like him as much the longer he stays the more everything gets complicated.

A – Awkwardly hard to watch.

L –  Less is more.

L – Last and first time watching it.

Y – Youth was wasted.

O – over excessive use of fade in and out scenes of the ocean.

U – Unique to say the least.

C – can’t say i’d recommend this movie to anyone.

A – A little advise, don’t buy snacks because you will lose appetite if you are sensitive about food etiquette.

N – No dialogue whatsoever.

E – Extremely unclear plot.

A – Abstract.

T – Took me the entire move to figure out what the movie was about.

B – Bored me after 5 minutes.

U – Underestimated how weird some movies can be.

D – Don’t do drugs kids.

D – Determination required to be able to sit through the entire movie.

A – All in all a very odd, dark contentless movie with no dialog and way too long scenes.

H – How on earth did Ian Lagarde come up with the idea for this movie.

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Published:
02.20.18 / 4pm
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Films, Santa Barbara Film Festival 2018