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functioning as an homage of sorts to Chantal Akerman's
Jeanne Dielman (23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles)  this installment
 of  THE BUFFET  features a slice of the filmmaker's very own life.
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after not being able to convince a local homeless person
with whom  JP  had initially met, befriended & sought to have dinner with
a few days previously (while seeking willing participants at a local shelter)
this installment of the  THE BUFFET   ultimately had to resort to a more
intimate, one-on-one dynamic between JP & the viewer ---
or the viewer, as JP, having the meal at Grand Hotel
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if there ever was an objective,unfettered, first-person POV documentation
of "dinner", ONE GRAND may be it; the film's slow, absorbing,
unedited shots, at times slowed down, sped up, shot hands-free,
at times with the iPhone placed in JP's sport jacket's
left front breast pocket --- all for the purpose of capturing
& simulating an embodied, universal, dining experience.