Mediterranean Diet (or Food, depending on your translation) is one of several ménage à trois movies at this year’s festival. This one is set in a seaside village near Barcelona so it is always sunny, everyone is glistening with a sexy sheen, and people have no tanlines. All the action revolves around food, and yet I felt like the filmmakers really didn’t know much about food. The depictions of the dishes were not anywhere near a sensuous as I would expect from a threesome movie. Besides that, no one ever ate anything. Even when Sofía auditions for a cook position at a resort hotel, her evaluator merely looks at the dishes she’s prepared and she’s hired. Aside from what could be a huge deficit, Mediterranean Food is a pleasant romp with three beautiful people. Not a bad start to a Sunday. [Mediterranean Food plays again 1 June at 9:15pm at Everett Performing Arts Center.]

The only Croatian entry into the festival, Donkey (Kenjac)  is about family bonds and issue resolution. Summer break brings family together in the Croatian countryside, along with a donkey, a symbol of each one’s stubbornness. Secrets are revealed, confrontations are made, and in the end . . . well, why ruin it for you, right? Nothing earth-shattering, but a nice little film. [Donkey plays again at Pacific Place on 5 June at 9:30pm.]

Although I thought I would enjoy the Bulgarian film Crayfish (Raci) more than Donkey, I was, in fact, wrong. The story itself was a good one, but it took 110 minutes to tell what could have been told in 30. There were many long, drawn-out scenes of nothingness. They were visions which probably pleased the director quite a bit, but did nothing to hold the audience’s interest and keep pace. Several people left before the ending, and while it’s not my policy to give up on a movie, I don’t blame them. (Someone on IMDb gave Crayfish 8 out of 10 stars and had this to say: “At least, this movie will remind you of your mother.” What?) I would like to see this screenplay remade by any other director. [Crayfish plays again at Uptown on 2 June at 9:30pm.]