The Lunch: A Letter to America

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The Lunch: A Letter to America is a documentary by Gianluca Vassallo, co-produced by The Curiosity Cabinet, with original music by Whitney George performed by The Curiosity Cabinet.

The film follows Eduardo, a Mexican cook in a Coney Island diner, during the last week of the U.S. presidential campaign. Around him, fragments of daily life accumulate into a portrait of a divided country: patriotic hymns, prayers, accidental violence, tenderness, and the landscapes of desperate beauty that surround an ordinary lunch counter.

The Curiosity Cabinet performance featured Adam von Housen, violin I; Laura Thompson, violin II; Laura Sacks, viola; Mark Serkin, cello; and Steve Beck, piano.

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