''All You Can Eat Buddha'' is a 2017 French-language Canadian

fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving Magic (supernatural), magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy ...

black comedy Black comedy, also known as dark comedy, morbid humor, or gallows humor, is a style of comedy that makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are normally considered serious or painful to discus ...

film directed by

Ian Lagarde Ian Lagarde is a Canadians, Canadian cinematographer and film director. He is most noted for his 2017 film ''All You Can Eat Buddha'', for which he received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Award for ...

. It was screened in the Discovery section at the

2017 Toronto International Film Festival The 42nd annual Toronto International Film Festival was held from 7 to 17 September 2017. There were fourteen programmes, with the Vanguard and City to City programmes both being retired from previous years, with the total number of films down b ...

. The film centres on Mike, a mysterious guest at a vacation resort in

Cuba Cuba ( , ), officially the Republic of Cuba ( es, República de Cuba, links=no ), is an island country comprising the island of Cuba, as well as Isla de la Juventud and several minor archipelagos. Cuba is located where the northern Caribbea ...

who appears to have the ability to perform miracles.

Cast

David La Haye David La Haye (born April 19, 1966) is a Canadian actor. Career He began his career in films in Yves Simoneau's ''Dans le ventre du dragon'' opposite such veteran stars as Rémy Girard and Pierre Curzi. With piercing eyes and an intense physic ...

as Jean-Pierre Villeneuve / J-P Newtown *

Richard Jutras Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong ...

as Bert * Ludovic Berthillot as Mike * Sylvio Arriola as Valentino * Yaité Ruiz as Esmeralda * Alexander Guerrero as Santiago

Accolades

The film received six

Canadian Screen Award The Canadian Screen Awards (french: link=no, Les prix Écrans canadiens) are awards given for artistic and technical merit in the film industry recognizing excellence in Canadian film, English-language television, and digital media (web series) p ...

nominations at the

6th Canadian Screen Awards The 6th annual Canadian Screen Awards were held on March 11, 2018, to honour achievements in Canadian film, television, and digital media production in 2017.

in 2018.

References

External links

* 2017 films 2017 black comedy films 2010s French-language films Canadian black comedy films Canadian fantasy comedy films 2017 fantasy films Films set in Cuba French-language Canadian films 2010s Canadian films {{2010s-comedy-film-stub