THE LUNCH – A LETTER TO AMERICA
Type: poetic-anthropological documentary
Direction: Gianluca Vassallo. With Eduardo Hernandez, Robert Arnold Linsay, Martin Coronel, Pastor Michelle Elfers, Mark Leonard, Grant O’Brien
Indefinable and surprising like poetry America by Allen Ginsberg, which we hear on the closing credits recited by the author himself, The Lunch by Gianluca Vassallo escapes any definition, even that of documentary for how it uses footage taken during the end of the 2024 election campaign, which led to Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris.
Kind of travel diary in the American province, from Coney Island to Pennsylvania and then through Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, South Dakota and back again, this prose poem it shows faces and places of a country that does not want to tell its story but only to exist.
A moment from the documentary “The Lunch – A Letter to America” by Gianluca Vassallo.
A country where everyone is convinced that they are rightwhether it’s a shepherdess who preaches the advent of Jesus, a fast food kitchen worker who dreams of his family remaining in Mexico, a mechanic who wants to “make America great again” or a cow farmer who regrets the heroism shown at the Battle of Gettysburg.
What holds them together is the director’s eye which mixes silent panoramas with excited speeches, declarations of vote with personal regrets, many small pieces of a mosaic that does not want to chase a meaning, but which finds it precisely in its confusion, in its contradictions.
For those who want to immerse themselves in the heart of an unconventional America.
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