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A Biopic That Ends Right When It’s Getting Started
A new film about Anthony Bourdain uses its subject to examine how a young person comes to love cooking.
TL;DR
- The film *Tony* centers on a 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain's early experiences.
- It adapts early chapters of Bourdain's *Kitchen Confidential*, focusing on a summer working in a Cape Cod seafood restaurant.
- The movie explores Tony's observational role in the kitchen and his development of a passion for cooking.
- A mentor figure helps Tony find pride in manual labor and appreciate the blend of highbrow and lowbrow in cuisine.
- The film captures the feeling of possibility and the recognizable foolishness of youth.
- Despite its focus on early life, the movie is presented as a significant origin story for Bourdain's enduring charisma.