Exclusive: A new teaser (watch it below) for A Taste of Sky, a feature documentary about an unusual food venture by Noma restauranteur Claus Meyer, is whetting appetites ahead of its U.S. premiere at this month’s Tribeca Film Festival.
The film chronicles the goings-on at Gustu, a restaurant and cooking school for the underprivileged youth of La Paz, the capital of Bolivia. Located 13,000 feet above sea level, the South American venue is set against spectacular scenery. The scene inside Gustu is a striking upstairs/downstairs blend of wealthy patrons drawn to the high-end fare turned out by the kitchen as the young staff learns the ropes and grapples with tradition.
Meyer, who has presided over four “Restaurant of the Year” wins at the world-famous Noma in Denmark, faces questions about colonialism and the nature of his intentions in Bolivia. His young charges include Maria Claudo, a native of the Andean altiplano,...
The film chronicles the goings-on at Gustu, a restaurant and cooking school for the underprivileged youth of La Paz, the capital of Bolivia. Located 13,000 feet above sea level, the South American venue is set against spectacular scenery. The scene inside Gustu is a striking upstairs/downstairs blend of wealthy patrons drawn to the high-end fare turned out by the kitchen as the young staff learns the ropes and grapples with tradition.
Meyer, who has presided over four “Restaurant of the Year” wins at the world-famous Noma in Denmark, faces questions about colonialism and the nature of his intentions in Bolivia. His young charges include Maria Claudo, a native of the Andean altiplano,...
- 4/15/2019
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
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• Interview with Thomas Vinterberg
'Il est merde!" yelled Mark Kermode, from the back of the cinema. "It is shit!" The year was 1998 and Kermode – then Radio 1's film critic – had not taken kindly to that year's Cannes film festival. Specifically, he was narked by a new work by Lars von Trier called The Idiots, a film shot with shaky cameras that centred on an orgy-loving group of rebels who, in public, acted like people with mental disabilities.
The Idiots was one of the first films to emerge from the Dogme 95 movement. Three years earlier, its ringleader Von Trier had stood up at a Paris conference and showered its audience with pamphlets. These were the bigwigs of...
• Interview with Thomas Vinterberg
'Il est merde!" yelled Mark Kermode, from the back of the cinema. "It is shit!" The year was 1998 and Kermode – then Radio 1's film critic – had not taken kindly to that year's Cannes film festival. Specifically, he was narked by a new work by Lars von Trier called The Idiots, a film shot with shaky cameras that centred on an orgy-loving group of rebels who, in public, acted like people with mental disabilities.
The Idiots was one of the first films to emerge from the Dogme 95 movement. Three years earlier, its ringleader Von Trier had stood up at a Paris conference and showered its audience with pamphlets. These were the bigwigs of...
- 11/26/2012
- by Patrick Kingsley
- The Guardian - Film News
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