Banquete

Norma Bengell and José Wilker play a duo of beggars who delight themselves into a banquet they collect from trashes outside of fancy restaurants. If this presentation of the film doesn't sound appealing or it's completely poor in taste, it's not since it comes with a mysterious twist related with those characters: they know exactly what they're eating and from where since they manage to describe the fancy, elaborated dishes and make it comparisons almost as if being grand cuisine connoisseurs in between small humored conversations at night as the Wilker character shares his new "foundings" to the woman.

The jab is on society and those wealthy in it with their many resources yet it all goes to waste, or close to that since there's people surviving on such waste. The criticism is there though it's the odd humor from it all that conquers audiences, and also the great mystery in trying to find out if the duo were a bunch of elitist people who lost everything to the point of becoming beggars, or it's a strange "fetish" to play unfortunate just so they won't pay for food, or if they're actually poor people who spent countless years on the same condition to the point they can recognise each particularity of a dish. You choose.

A shoutout to the late director/writer Marcelo Laffitte, not only for making the movie but also in making it available on the internet, but it's a pity that one cannot see it properly due to a lousy image quality, and an even more tragedy since it's veteran Norma Bengell's final film role. 7/10.