Bring your appetite: Wiseman’s latest film is a feast for the eyes
by Peter Rainer
Nov 30, 2023
2 minutes
Frederick Wiseman’s “Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros” is a four-hour documentary about a legendary French restaurant, Le Bois sans Feuilles, in the bucolic Loire countryside. I wasn’t bored for a moment. To call it “immersive” is an understatement.
Foodie shows have been so overexposed on television that the effect of this film comes as something of a shock: For once, we are experiencing the culinary arts through
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