Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros
Certainly one of the greatest documentary filmmakers of all time (if not the greatest), 93-year-old Frederick Wiseman has, for over fifty years, made films about institutions, covering everything from high schools to strip clubs, from museums to department stores. Now he gets to a subject that has been long coming, the food movie. The result is arguably his most visual movie since Boxing Gym, a more active film, with more colorful rewards for the eye. Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros focuses on Chef Michel Troisgros of the Michelin 3-star La Maison Troisgros, in Roanne, France, and his son Cesar, who manages the day-to-day operations. We get magnificent footage of the kitchen, which seems to run with smooth precision, and with very little yelling or panicking...
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