By Mónica Delgado

In Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson builds a game of correspondences through an elemental figure, food as a life drive. In its first minutes, the act of eating becomes a situation which defines sensibilities, attentions, rites and goodbyes. But this series of acts surrounding food (which draw the character of designer Reynolds Woodcock and his relationship with his new lover) is not completely explicit, but carefully inserted with an ingenious subtlety inside the first frivolous layer of fashion’s world.