ALL YOU CAN EAT BUDDHA

By Ian LAGARDE

TRANSILVANIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - as FEST

Second film - Completed 2017

A dark and twisted, character-driven tale of social and intimate conflict, metamorphosis and decadence, densely packed with lust, gluttony and meditation. Part Monty Python, part Jodorowsky, All You Can Eat Buddha is full-on existantialist decadence, stubborn epicurianism and mystical self-consumpti

Festivals
& Awards

Toronto - TIFF 2017
Discovery
Rotterdam IFF 2018
Bright Future
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Second film
    • Countries
    • CANADA
    • Languages
    • FRENCH, SPANISH
    • Budget
    • 1 - 3 M$
    • Duration
    • 88 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ian LAGARDE
    • Writer(s)
    • Ian LAGARDE
    • Producer(s)
    • Gabrielle TOUGAS-FRÉCHETTE (Voyelles FIlms), Menaïc RAOUL (Voyelles Films)
    • Synopsis
    • MIKE's appetite is infinite. It is without taboos or obstacles. He will eat anything, anywhere at any time. At the El Palacio, a resort in the carribean, he falls for the all-you-can-eat american style buffet and doesn't look back. His voracious appetite and a strong yet mysterious magnetism attracts both fascination and disgust.
      He becomes friends with a flamboyant VALET, a mysterious CHAMBERMAID and her hyperactive SON. But all that attention also draws in some less friendly people, among which is the SALSA TEACHER, whose annoying egotisical rants and omnipresently dull beats deeply irritate Mike.
      His newfound friends and enemy will accompany him in gargantuan downward spiral mixing social and intestinal debacle; a strange metamorphosis backed by the best customer service in the world.