BEATRIZ AT DINNER
Is Beatriz at Dinner as darkly comic as the advertisements alluded? Not exactly. The central construct involves Beatriz (Salma Hayak), a massage therapist and holistic healer, who gets a friendly offer to stay for a dinner party from a client after her car breaks down. The party is populated with WASPs and blow-hards, the biggest of whom is a boorish billionaire (John Lithgow), whose hotel business makes Beatriz recall her own struggles as an immigrant coming to America. Mike White’s screenplay crackles as the booze flows and the night spirals out of control. Hayak has never been better, and the film makes for a great topic of conversation (maybe over dinner) about those who destroy and those who heal.
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