Tony
"I was — to be frank — a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, and badly in need of a good ass-kicking."
A nineteen-year-old Anthony Bourdain washes up in Provincetown and falls into a restaurant kitchen, and the film takes that one summer as the hinge on which a whole life turns.
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Synopsis
A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.
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A nineteen-year-old Anthony Bourdain washes up in Provincetown and falls into a restaurant kitchen, and the film takes that one summer as the hinge on which a whole life turns. The tagline, a young man's own unsparing verdict on himself, sets the tone precisely: this is not hagiography but a portrait of someone unformed, loud, and about to be handed the discipline he badly needs. Kitchens make superb cinema, all heat and hierarchy and profane camaraderie, and the setup promises exactly that texture.
It suits viewers drawn to coming-of-age stories with grit under the nails, anyone who has worked service, and anyone curious about the making of a sensibility rather than the celebrity it later became. At an hour and forty-six the pace stays loose and seasonal, drifting through a summer rather than marching through a biography. Warm, messy, and specific, it is a fine watch for a night when you want a life caught at the moment it took shape.
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