Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville tackles chef, author and TV host Anthony Bourdain’s complicated life and tragic death in two-hour documentary form.
Documentaries are often a forum for processing tragedy, sometimes in the near-immediate aftermath of events like 9/11 or the COVID Summer of 2020, but something comes across as different about the unresolved grief and responsibility felt by those Bourdain left behind. This results in a film that will move you — definitely to sadness, perhaps to anger — and, if you’re like me, a film that doesn’t always feel like it should have been made at all, at least not at this moment and in this way.
, the book that would change his life. From there, nearly everything comes filtered through his post-breakout TV ubiquity — talk show appearances, promotional speeches and, of course, material from
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