El Bulli - Cooking in Progress (2010)
Incidental coarse language
| Director: | Gereon Wetzel |
| Actors: | Ferran Adrià, Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch, Eugeni De Diego, Aitor Lozano |
Three Michelin-starred chef Ferran Adrià is widely considered the best, most innovative and craziest chef in the world. In his kitchen, that which was once familiar, disintegrates. Each year his restaurant El Bulli closes for 6 months – time for Adrià and his team to retire to his Barcelona cooking laboratory to create the new menu. Anything goes – except copying oneself.
With unprecedented access, El Bulli - Cooking in Progress lets us step inside one of the world's premier haute cuisine restaurants, where the experimentation process is as wild, colourful and delicious as the food.
| Status: | LongWait |
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| Run time: | 104mins |
| Origin: | GERMANY |
| Aspect Ratio: | 16:9 |
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Documentary in Spanish, with English subtitles. Contains some extra features. elBuli does not exist anymore, after being named THE WORLD's BEST RESTAURANT for FIVE TIMES, it closed in July 2011. (Possibly the Global Financial Crisis has contributed to closing it). Ferran Adria has opened a cheaper tapas bar called "Tickets" (one can book online from 60 days in advance) plus a night cocktail bar "41", both in Barcelona. As for the location where elBuli existed for several years, (a two-hour drive north from Barcelona, in the Catalan seaside town of Roses) there will be a foundation dedicated to culinary creativity, opening in 2014.
As for the documentary, it shows the creative process, taking place for many months in advance of serving the dishes to customers. Relentless trial and error of numerous ingredients, cooking methods, combinations of flavours and imaginative and surprising ways of serving food, sometimes as simple (?) as a layer of frozen water, sprinkled with herbs and spices; a drink of water with a layer of oil; pasta-less ravioli, etc. Experimentation and artistic expression taken to the extreme. Most chefs in the movie are males. Curious subject matter.