What the Anthony Bourdain Movie Doesn’t Show You

What the Anthony Bourdain Movie Doesn’t Show You

Tony, the A24 film about Anthony Bourdain, is set in Provincetown in 1976. He’s 19, he’s just been rejected from a writing fellowship, and he takes a summer job washing dishes. His estate supported the film because it doesn’t try to summarise a life — it’s about one summer.

Which means it ends forty-two years before Alsace.

In June 2018, Anthony Bourdain was in Kaysersberg, a village of four thousand people in eastern France, filming an episode of Parts Unknown that was never finished and never aired. He died there.

Eight years later, a chef threw a dart at a world map, blindfolded, on live
Romanian television. It landed on France. I found out after checking in that I’d booked the room he last stayed in.

Full documentary, 33 minutes: https://youtu.be/8olPSbkNlFI

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