Step Up to the Plate
Entre les Bras - La cuisine en héritage
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dir. Paul Lacoste, France, 2011, 86 mins
Screening times
May 13 12:30, Kinoteka 4Buy online
May 15 16:30, Luna B
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About the film

“Step Up To the Plate” is a movie about the relationship that exists between cuisine/cooking and the human spirit. Observing the work of the Michelin starred chef Michel Bras and his son Sébastien, set in the Aubrac region, a third, but essential, character in the movie. A father transmitting his restaurant to his son. Both a crucial but inevitably different moment in their lives. In 2009, three-Michelin-stars French chef Michel Bras decides to hand his restaurant over to his son Sébastien, who has been working with him for 15 years. Step up to the plate tells the story of these extraordinary dishes prepared by a father and a son, in the hilly landscape of Aubrac region. We follow this gastronomic transmission, and enter intimately in their family ties. Between Jonathan Nossiter's Mondovino and Raymond Depardon's La Vie Moderne, this documentary draws a moving and joyful portrait of this outstanding family devoted to the Haute Cuisine for three generations.

Wybrane nagrody i festiwale /Selected festivals and awards: 2012 - MFF Berlinale/Berlinale


Filmmakers

Reżyseria/Directed by: Paul Lacoste
Zdjęcia/Cinematography by: Yvan Quehec
Producenci/Producers: Didier Creste, Gaëlle Bayssière
Produkcja/Production: Everybody on Deck

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Autor nie umiał zdecydować, co jest głównym tematem filmu. Dlatego wątki są nie pogłębione: czym jest haute cuisine, problemy ojca i syna wynikające z przekazania "władzy" nad biznesem, który jest sensem życia, związki z przyrodą i lokalną społecznością, jeszcze kilka innych. Ładnie filmowane, ale nie zmontowało się, nie powstała dramaturgia. I jak często - zabrakło odwagi, żeby skracać i wyrzucać. Szkoda. (JL05)