Congressman Stan Lohman (Richard Gere) and his boorish, seemingly
bipolar brother, Paul (Steve Coogan), are having a five-course meal in
an impossibly posh restaurant with their wives (Rebecca Hall and Laura
Linney, respectively) to talk about a pressing matter just hours before a
piece of legislation the congressman is promoting comes up for a vote.
Stan Lohman is also running for governor and needs the legislative win
and the resolution of an incident involving the couples’ sons if he’s to
move forward. Though the food being served in Oren Moverman’s dyspeptic
filmThe Dinner looks divine, the bilious bickering between the brothers
and the horrific doings of their sons make for especially difficult
viewing. The film has layers of sickness and dysfunction and a
startlingly abrupt ending.
As you closely read the two photographs above -- Sally Mann's "Candy Cigarette"(top) and Diane Arbus's "....jpg)
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