Cru (Raw) | How Far Will a Chef Push Herself in a High Pressure Kitchen?

To succeed in this kitchen you need to make the dishes with blood, sweat and tears...

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🩸 Cru (Raw)
Dir. David Oesch
http://www.david-oesch.com/

"Yes, Chef!” Even if you’re only remotely familiar with last year’s hit FX show The Bear, you know the expression by now. There has been a healthy portion of gastronomy-themed films and series set in the food service industry in the last few years–let alone documentaries and cooking shows. One might get the feeling that David Oesch’s Cru is part of a larger trend of stories that stimulate our tastebuds while showing the unappetizing underbelly of this stressful profession. But it is worth pointing out that Cru was made in 2019, before the success of The Bear, and as is often the case with short films, the narrative is a distillation of the various themes found in similar examples.

At first, the dishes in Cru look mouthwateringly delicious, framed like Instagram-able food porn, but this feeling is soon replaced by the palpable tension among the kitchen staff, while they hustle to prepare the food for a high-class restaurant. It doesn’t take long before the stakes are raised even more when the demanding head chef inspects the staff’s creations and requests perfection. The pulsating atmosphere becomes more and more tense, until the pressure gets too much and the work takes its toll. For a moment, the film slows down and finds the chef and the Cuisinière sharing a seemingly heartfelt moment, until the tension boils over… - S/W Curator, Georg Csarmann

*CAST + CREW*

Actors: Jeanne Werner, Malika Khatir & Nic Aklin
Director: David Oesch
Cinematography: Ramón Königshausen
Editing: Elias Jutzet
Production: Antonia Durisch
Costumes & set design: Jeanne-Vera Bourguignon
Make up: Linda Schär
Storyboard artist: Hae-Sup Sin
Location manager: Jonas van der Kleij
Assistant directors: Luisa Ricar, Stephanie Burla
Sound: Benoît Barraud
Gaffer: Nino Michelfood
Stylist & consulting: Yannick Marc Breitenstein
Music: Janos Mijnsen
Sound design: Gina Keller
A Zurich University of the Arts production.

Reproduced on this channel with the permission of the filmmakers.

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