Hot Dogs to Haute Cuisine, Then Back Down Again
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
Jan Dite (Ivan Barnev), the plucky little waiter who bounces around central Europe in Jiri Menzel’s epic comedy “I Served the King of England,” has colossal ambitions. Catering to political and military fat cats at a fancy brothel in 1930s Czechoslovakia, his appetites are piqued as he observes these pompous boors dandling prostitutes on their laps while washing down obscenely rich banquets with beer and brandy.
As the song says, “Them that’s got shall get. ...” These scenes of marathon gourmandizing offer some of the most pungently satirical observations of unfettered gluttony ever filmed. [...]
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