Burnt
- Director: John Wells
- Writer: Steven Knight; Michael Kalesniko
- Producer: David Glasser; Caroline Hewitt
CGiii Comment
First and foremost, Jon Wells is not a film director - he's a producer and that is the department where he succeeds and should remain. After a relatively short time of watching...it becomes a game...of spot the goof, gaff and glaring mistake.
Secondly, Steven Knight is a fine writer...proving: everyone has a bad day!
Thirdly, this is a gay story about unrequited love...not that any of the gay media seemed to have noticed!
The ever-watchable Daniel Bruhl plays a hopelessly-in-love sidekick to Bradley Cooper's ego-twisted, malcontented, detoxed, psychopathic chef [what's there not to love?!?]...if this relationship was the driving force for the whole film...then, perhaps, a much better film would have been produced. Instead, a pastiche of erroneous Michelin taxonomy is dished up and dished out...without even the slightest nod to authenticity.
A big budget ridiculed by a conglomerate laziness...bad days for many behind the camera...and, whoever did the continuity ought not to be let loose in that department again!
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
Chef Adam Jones (Bradley Cooper) had it all - and lost it. A two-star Michelin rockstar with the bad habits to match, the former enfant terrible of the Paris restaurant scene did everything different every time out, and only ever cared about the thrill of creating explosions of taste. To land his own kitchen and that third elusive Michelin star though, he'll need the best of the best on his side, including the beautiful Helene (Sienna Miller).
Cast & Characters
Bradley Cooper as Adam Jones;
Sienna Miller as Helene;
Daniel Bruhl as Tony;
Riccardo Scamarcio as Max;
Omar Sy as Michel;
Sam Keeley as David;
Henry Goodman as Conti;
Matthew Rhys as Reece;
Stephen Campbell Moore as Jack;
Emma Thompson as Dr Rosshilde;
Uma Thurman as Simone Forth;
Lexie Benbow-Hart as Lily;
Alicia Vikander as Anne Marie;
Lily James as Sara;
Sarah Greene as Kaitlin