Gestes du repas

This ethnographic film sends us the image of the man who eats a stark look at Belgium We spend about oneeighth of our days eating Luc de Heusch films these repetitive gestures that seem trivial yet reveal so much of a particular culture and a civilization From morning to night from the market installation to dinner from the daily and fast meal to the feast the ethnologist is interested in all social classes Originally an attempt of cinematographic ethnography neutral and distant intended to define the Belgians by the way they eat In fact Luc de Heusch films his contemporaries as if they were Papuans