Stage: The Culinary Internship

Name: Stage: The Culinary Internship
Genre: Documentary

Canada · 2019
1h 30m
Director Abby Ainsworth
Starring
Genre Documentary

Stage: The Culinary Internship follows a group of interns during a nine month apprenticeship at one of the best restaurants in the world, Mugaritz. While the restaurant’s notorious avant-garde cuisine and creative working environment elevates these young hopefuls to think outside the confines of a kitchen, the extremely high standards prove to be mentally and physically exhausting. Ultimately, not everyone can handle the heat.

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Film Threat by Alan Ng

It’s unique and offers a fresh take on the kitchen environment.

The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg

Cooking that makes diners uncomfortable hasn’t inspired comparable creativity of cinematic form. “Stage” makes you want to eat, not watch.

Variety by Guy Lodge

At just 78 minutes, this bustling, absorbing doc hasn’t quite enough time to entirely draw us into the lives and perspectives of its likable human subjects: We’re given sketched-in backgrounds and familial food histories, but their personalities remain somewhat elusive.

The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore

If Ainsworth is ever turned off, you won't know it: She and DP Ben Ainsworth make everything look interesting, if not necessarily appetizing.