Drunken Noodles

Adnan (Laith Khalifeh), a handsome foreign student at Bard, spends a summer in New York looking after a small gallery and having many casual gay sexual encounters. The previous summer, according to a sudden narrative break, he was upstate where he met Sal, an older artist who embroiders orgy scenes worthy of gallery representation. Argentinian Lucio Castro, the New York-based indie filmmaker and fashion designer, has made a dreamy, sensuous and gentle lyric to carnality, loneliness and natural beauty. It is indeed like the Thai dish of the title, a tasty mix of savory and sweet.