À la Carte (2022) - Shortfilm

A businesswoman and a businessman with their assistants are having lunch in a restaurant and talk about alleged social topics such as smalltalk and privat life as a side stage of the actual negotiations.

At the table they avoid speaking openly, instead they try to compete in absurd ways. They compete in ordering and eating food, they collect bizarr amounts of signatures from each other.

On the contrary they negotiate and plot frankly while being at the toilet, in order to gain most advantage after the inevitable yet hopeless contracting to be done.

After all trump cards are played without having a clear dominator, the negotiations escalate into a shakespearian battle of words, stabbing and poisoning, after which the assistants scavenge the leftovers.

À La Carte is an absurd chamber play, which stages the total blending of business and life in comic and bizarr ways.