First-time filmmaker Ruth Paxton‘s A Banquet was acquired by IFC Midnight in the wake of its Toronto International Film Festival premiere, and it’s coming home next month.
Indiewire reports that A Banquet is coming to “select theaters and on digital platforms on February 18.” Indiewire also scored the trailer today, which we’ve embedded below.
Interesting to note, February 18 is the very same day another movie inherently connected to the themes of family and food will be released: Netflix’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
IFC previews, “This slow-burning psychological horror explores the ferocity of maternal love, psychology of power, and the questions of female madness and faith. The film uses subtle supernatural elements to create tension within a family in the midst of a breakdown, exploiting the complicated bonds between three generations of mothers and daughters.”
In A Banquet…
“Widowed mother Holly (Sienna Guillory) is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey (Jessica Alexander) 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.” Ruby Stokes and Lindsay Duncan also star.
Justin Bull wrote the script for A Banquet.