A Banquet
Family or famine.
Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but loses no weight. In an agonizing dilemma, torn between love and fear, Holly is forced to confront the boundaries of her own beliefs.
- 4.2
- 2022
- Released
- 1h 37m
Sienna Guillory
Holly
Jessica Alexander
Betsey
Ruby Stokes
Isabelle
Lindsay Duncan
June
Kaine Zajaz
Dominic
Richard Keep
Jason
Rina Mahoney
Sarah
Deka Walmsley
Doctor
Walter van Dyk
Dentist
Andrew Steele
Clinic Manager
Jonathan Nyati
Careers Advisor
Zak Douglas
Will
Kim Chapman
Distressed Patient
Released
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Reviews
This movie may be A Banquet, but it’s no feast. It has no fat in it, but no meat either. It’s lean but not muscular – nothing but skin and bones. It might whet your appetite for similar but heartier offerings such as Take Shelter, Horse Girl, or the German Kreuzweg – but then why not just skip the apéritif and go straight for the main course? The action, such as it is, is triggered by the rise