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Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros

Play trailer 1:39 Poster for Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros Released Nov 22, 2023 4h 0m Documentary Play Trailer Watchlist
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Founded in 1930 in central France, the Troisgros family restaurant has been holding 3 Michelin stars for 55 years over four generations. Michel Troisgros, the third generation to head the restaurant, has turned over the responsibility for the cuisine to his son César, the 4th generation of Troisgros chefs. From the market to pick fresh vegetables, to a cheese processing plant, a vineyard, an organic cattle ranch to the backyard garden supplying the restaurant, Wiseman embarks us on a mouthwatering and sense-pleasing journey into the family’s three restaurant kitchens. An immersive experience, showing the great artistry, ingenuity, imagination, and hard work of the restaurant staff in creating, preparing, and presenting meals of the highest quality.
Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros

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Another patient, steadily absorbing triumph for Frederick Wiseman, Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros pays delectable tribute to a talented family's culinary legacy.

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John Anderson Wall Street Journal Any viewer interested in food, food preparation, food service, wine, cheese, frogs or snails will be affixed to his figurative chair at Mr. Wiseman’s table. Bring snacks. Mar 21, 2024 Full Review Odie Henderson Boston Globe "Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros" patiently takes us through the entire operation. And then, just like clockwork, the journey begins anew, with Wiseman's camera there to record it all and present it to us on a silver platter of cinematic enjoyment. Rated: 3.5/4 Feb 13, 2024 Full Review Josh Kupecki Austin Chronicle Menus-Plaisirs is a fascinating exploration of that passion, and perhaps the closest many of us will get to experiencing it at all. Rated: 3.5/5 Dec 28, 2023 Full Review Alex Heeney Seventh Row For the Troisgrois family, the process is part of the experience. This makes Wiseman’s methods a perfect match for the material. Mar 22, 2024 Full Review Jeffrey Edalatpour East Bay Express A dialogue about asparagus, passionfruit and rhubarb turns into a philosophical and artistic inquiry about technique, appearance and taste. The pace of the exchange rivals every Éric Rohmer movie. Mar 21, 2024 Full Review James Verniere Boston Herald Another beautifully exhausive examination from wizard documentary Frederick Wiseman. Rated: A- Feb 9, 2024 Full Review Read all reviews

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Sam K You will read everywhere that this is Fred Wiseman’s documentary style, and therefore it’s a fabulous example of his style. The reality is, if you aren’t prepared for a plotless, wandering, rambling four hour movie, you will give up about half way. Less a style and more a let’s-film-some-stuff-and-stick-it-together-in-no-particular-order, the moments of visual beauty, kitchen vibrancy, and service intimacy are all diluted by other stuff. There literally is zero rationale for the film being this long. Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/25/24 Full Review ArtystaPisarz P This was the first movie by Frederick Wiseman that I saw, but from what I gather about him, he has an eye for the mundane that is also not mundane at all. For the Troigros family running a prestigious restaurant in French countryside is a mundane activity, as this is what they do all their live, and Wiseman captures the mundanity of it. At the same time for us, viewers, this is something new and exciting, and this excitement is also here, though the primary lens is still the one of the mundane. This movie, interestingly enough, has almost no structure, no story to tell. We jump from conversations about food to food service to food preparation and then again to service or maybe scouting for good ingredients without any internal logic to it, as it seems. In a sense, this is not a movie about the “Troigros” restaurant – a traditional documentary about it would explain to us the story of the family and their businesses trough mix of off-screen narration and interviews, and we have none of that here. Instead we are invited to take an excruciatingly close look at details of their life and its textures – lamb chop, asparagus, sause, cheese etc. This can have almost hypnotic effect on the viewer and is indeed very immersive, it is a practice of almost sensual experiences rather than exercise in knowledge. Wiseman chose his subject wisely (nomen est omen) – the Troigros are interesting people with their own quirks that show on the screen. We don’t really see their personal lives, though, and sometimes I would be hard pressed to explain the amount of tension between some of the people on screen. Overall, this is a unique documentary, quite unlike any food documentaries that I saw in the past. I am certain that some of the images presented here will stay with me for a long while and factor into my imaginations on what prestigious restaurants should look like. Some of the smell and tastes I will almost remember, too. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 07/04/24 Full Review Emily R Fantastic movie, in every way. I'm looking forward to watching this again. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/23/24 Full Review Matt M The 4-hour length adds to the film. Beautiful. Food and restaurant cinema verite film masterpiece. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/24 Full Review Rosa N It's quite long, but you don't even notice. An incredible film. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/12/24 Full Review Chet S I really liked this film Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/16/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Founded in 1930 in central France, the Troisgros family restaurant has been holding 3 Michelin stars for 55 years over four generations. Michel Troisgros, the third generation to head the restaurant, has turned over the responsibility for the cuisine to his son César, the 4th generation of Troisgros chefs. From the market to pick fresh vegetables, to a cheese processing plant, a vineyard, an organic cattle ranch to the backyard garden supplying the restaurant, Wiseman embarks us on a mouthwatering and sense-pleasing journey into the family’s three restaurant kitchens. An immersive experience, showing the great artistry, ingenuity, imagination, and hard work of the restaurant staff in creating, preparing, and presenting meals of the highest quality.
Director
Frederick Wiseman
Producer
Frederick Wiseman, Karen Konicek, Olivier Giel
Distributor
Zipporah Films
Production Co
3 Star LLC, Zipporah Films
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
French
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 22, 2023, Limited
Runtime
4h 0m