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Plot Summary
French chef Michel Bras, one of the most influential chefs in the world (creator of the molten chocolate cake and pioneer of the farm to table movement), has decided to hand over his renowned 3-Michelin-Star restaurant to his son Sébastien. Having worked with his father for 15 years, Sébastien is ready. But it's not easy to take over the family business when your father is a master in his field. Filmed in the gorgeous Aubrac region in the South of France, home to the Bras family for generations, STEP UP TO THE PLATE offers a rare glimpse into the Bras' culinary process while capturing one of the most closely watched transitions in the world of haute cuisine. The Washington Post raved STEP UP TO THE PLATE was "Delicious! For foodies - or, really, for anyone who appreciates watching a creative master at work - it’s great, revealing stuff," and The New York Times noted "Foodies will marvel at the studied care given every choice of herb, every flick of a wrist, every design of a plate."
Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
68%- Reviews Counted: 28
- Fresh: 19
- Rotten: 9
- Average Rating: 6.1/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: "Step Up to the Plate" asserts how family, in multifarious ways, can be the most deeply affecting of ensembles.
Rotten: A cerebral, dirge-paced outline of a father-son dynamic that asks the audience to fill in too many narrative and emotional gaps.
Fresh: Lacoste cleverly uses the enhanced sound of Michel slowly, deliberately chewing and crunching, in what is really the film's climax.
Fresh: It's an intimate and immaculate film, modest in its goals and greatly affecting.
Customer Reviews
Vibrant - Food & Emotions
For those who love food and appreciate the beauty of the art of cooking, you will definitely enjoy the insight and the doors opened in the kitchen of one of the most skilled chefs in the world ever. But the documentary goes beyond food, it is a trip in one of the most beautiful parts of France and "l'art culinaire", and a touching story between a father who started from nothing and became a master, now slowing retiring and letting his son take over the family business. The passion for food that runs in the the blood of the Bras family is vibrant and contagious; it is hard to be insensitive to the genius of Michel Bras and his son, it is a real pleasure to feel part (at least for 1 hour & 30min) of this great human story.
Lacking...
There isn't actually much of a movie here. Lots of people start family restaurants, so what? They tried to make it into something, but really, nothing happens and there's no much to see.
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