It offers lively and layered images that reveal the chefs both as individuals and components of a larger social organism.
Ants on a Shrimp
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Netherlands · 2016
1h 28m
Director Maurice Dekkers
Starring Thomas Frebel, Dan Giusti, Kim Mikkola, René Redzepi
Genre Documentary
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René Redzepi’s Copenhagen restaurant NOMA was named “World’s Best Restaurant” in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2014. But what happens when the superstar chef relocates the restaurant and its entire staff to Tokyo, creating an all-new, fourteen-course menu from local sources? This mouth-watering documentary depicts a cross-cultural culinary odyssey.
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What are critics saying?
The New York Times by Daniel M. Gold
None of the concoctions left me salivating (a basic, I’d think, for any food porn), and the exercise seems silly if not decadent. But foodies with a refined palate might differ — de gustibus, after all — and other viewers can appreciate the manic creativity that drives Mr. Redzepi and his crew.
Like a well-executed fine-dining experience, this sleek documentary entertains, delights, and makes viewers comfortable without evident sweat.
Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
Director Maurice Dekkers stops far short of shooting “food porn” here, instead deftly capturing the often spare beauty of Redzepi and company’s rarefied concoctions including, yes, ants on a shrimp.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
In a time of plentiful lush and/or enlightening food docs, only viewers who idolize Rene Redzepi and his talented crew need pay attention to this one.
Dutch helmer Maurice Dekkers devotes most of his film to the celebrity chef’s extensive foraging, while his abstemious staff harps on about the onerous pursuit of perfection; one crucial missing ingredient, however, is the joy of eating or cooking.
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