Club Zero (2023) review

Ms. Novak (Mia Wasikowska) is hired to be a new instructor at a private high school ("The Talent Campus") where she teaches a class in what she calls "conscious eating" (she also sells "fasting tea" that has her face on the box) with the goal of informing her pupils about "reducing consumerism" - a couple of her students, including Elsa (Ksenia Devriendt), Ragna (Florence Baker) and diabetic dancer Fred (Luke Barker), buy into her ideas but then she challenges them to take it one step farther and starve themselves (which they do).  I'm not quite sure what Hausner's point is in making this (or if she even knows herself) because everything seems to be wrong with it: mocking "holistic" people is cheap and easy, the kids are already rail thin so depriving them of calories is unnecessary and Ms. Novak isn't exactly the most charismatic of instructors, so it's unclear what kind of mesmeric power she holds over them.  As if that wasn't enough, Hausner uses an off-putting "surveillance" style to record it - in which several of her cameras appear to be attached to the walls at an angle and zoom in and out - and the "music" could have been composed by third graders learning their instruments.  If this is an "attack" on education, it fails miserably; if it's some mindless twist on the phrase "eat the rich" (considering the final shot is a reference to Leonardo's The Last Supper), that doesn't work either.