El Bulli: Cooking in Progress

Sep 15, 2011

1h 48m

★ 5.3

Overview

For six months of the year, renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adria closes his restaurant El Bulli -- repeatedly voted the world's best -- and works with his culinary team to prepare the menu for the next season. An elegant, detailed study of food as avant-garde art, EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS is a rare inside look at some of the world's most innovative and exciting cooking; as Adria himself puts it, "the more bewilderment, the better!"

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film

El Bulli: Cooking in Progress Trailers

Cast

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Ferran Adrià

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Oriol Castro

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Eduard Xatruch

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Eugeni de Diego

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Aitor Lozano

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El Bulli: Cooking in Progress

Overview

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