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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

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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75

Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

It offers lively and layered images that reveal the chefs both as individuals and components of a larger social organism.

60

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.

90

Village Voice by Diana Clarke

Like a well-executed fine-dining experience, this sleek documentary entertains, delights, and makes viewers comfortable without evident sweat.

80

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.

40

Variety by Maggie Lee

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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