The much-honored Spanish restaurant elBulli, which closed in 2011, was once considered the best in the world, but this intriguing foodie documentary reveals a rival - a sibling rival, that is. While elBulli's head chef Ferran Adriá was proclaimed a genius, it seems that behind the scenes simmering wasn't confined to stockpots. Over a four-year period, filmmakers Collado and Loomis follow the story of Ferran's former partner and co-chef, younger brother Albert, as he steps out of the long shadow of elBulli's legacy and stakes his own claim to fame on an ambitious string of five restaurants in Barcelona's theater district, each featuring a different wildly innovative cuisine. Mouths will water as the film details the creation of Enigma, the seriously experimental eatery that Albert hopes will seal his place in gastronomic history. In Spanish with English subtitles.
CIELO Opens at CCA in Santa Fe, Laemmle Ahrya and CONSTRUCTING ALBERT at Gene Siskel Film Center
August 22, 2018
CIELO opens at Laemmle Ahrya this Friday with a Q&A hosted by Marja Seidel and Johanna Teske on Saturday evening. Learn more here.
On the 23rd CIELO opens at CCA in Santa Fe.
And it is held over until August 29th at Film Forum.
CONSTRUCTING ALBERT has its Chicago premier at the Gene SIskel Film Center:
Chicago premiere!
"Offers a banquet of close-ups bound to make the tummy rumble." - Patrick Mullen, Point of View Magazine
"A fascinating window on the challenges of meeting often rarefied expectations within haute cuisine circles…will satisfy the appetites of both the curious and the food-focused alike." - Justin Lowe, Hollywood Reporter
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