
Lucien and Regina gather wild mushrooms in the woodlands of New Jersey and sell them to restaurants in New York. Their lifestyle is simple, their income unstable. Regina decides to take a full-time job cooking at a high-end restaurant to improve their financial security and to follow a more fulfilling personal career path. Feeling threatened, Lucien proposes that instead of selling out, they give up their apartment and drive to the more-profitable West Coast as full-time itin... (Full plot summary below)
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Lucien and Regina gather wild mushrooms in the woodlands of New Jersey and sell them to restaurants in New York. Their lifestyle is simple, their income unstable. Regina decides to take a full-time job cooking at a high-end restaurant to improve their financial security and to follow a more fulfilling personal career path. Feeling threatened, Lucien proposes that instead of selling out, they give up their apartment and drive to the more-profitable West Coast as full-time itinerant foragers. As individual desires take them down divergent paths over the course of a year, their marriage is put to a test.
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| Screen InternationalMark AdamsMushrooms, food and romance collide in Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin's modestly charming indie debut. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertNow, Forager is a uncompromising film about two people who don't deserve each other - but maybe nobody deserves either one of them. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleDespite an awkwardly jokey title, Now, Forager has charm, intelligence and a cool passion for its principled characters - an appealing off-menu slice for hungry indie admirers. |
| OregonianMarc MohanDespite its punning title, this is an earnest, absorbing drama set at the intersection of countercultural idealism and gastronomical sophistication. |
| The New York TimesNicolas RapoldThis uneven, slow-brewed film begins by observing a brittle relationship about to crumble, but it is better at portraying how the exacting standards of food professionals can lead to personal grief. |
| Slant MagazineNick SchagerBoasts an evocative sense of environment and the feel of working with one's hands, but otherwise rummages around in search of substance and subtlety. |
| Village VoiceJonathan KieferA slow-food procedural, commendably devoted yet still underdone. |
| Time OutDavid FearThe novelty of their industry aside, there's little to differentiate this from any other relationship-centered Amerindie. |
| User ReviewDan HI don't know why this film has such a low RT score. I just saw it last week and loved it. It's more of an art film along the lines of Robert Bresson's DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST or Krzysztof Zanussi's STRUCTURE OF CRYSTALS--or Bob Rafelson's FIVE EASY PIECES--than anything else. It's certainly not a twee little film about self-congratulatory Foodies preaching the virtues of organics. It's actually a very smart, dark thought-provoking film about alienation and male melancholy that stays with you. |
| User ReviewJanosh HWhat happened to those mushroom bandits? Can we get a movie about them? |