12/15/2023 0 Comments Movie the alchemist cookbook review![]() ![]() ![]() He spends his days cooking up potions and elixirs from the titular cookbook in an attempt, it seems, to summon the devil. Sean (Ty Hickson) lives in a secluded mobile home out in the woods, hours from civilization. Joel Potrykus’s The Alchemist Cookbook is a reasonably compelling addition to the genre, blending bits of Jarmuschian humour with a very raw depiction of a man breaking down, but it also treads overly familiar territory. ![]() Low budgets are likely the reason why movies about people having mental breakdowns alone are such a Fantasia staple year in and year out - it remains just about the most gripping story you can tell in a film with just one actor and one location. The following films are screening as part of the Fantasia Film Festival, which runs through Aug.
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