2010
Not Rated
First Run Features
1 h 27 m

2010
Not Rated
First Run Features
1 h 27 m

Summary Imagine a scene never before witnessed: Sixteen French pastry chefs gathered in Lyon for three intense days of mixing, piping and sculpting everything from delicate chocolates to six-foot sugar sculptures in hopes of being declared by President Nicolas Sarkozy one of the best. This is the prestigious Meilleurs Ouvriers de France competit...

Directed By: D.A. Pennebaker

2010
Not Rated
First Run Features
1 h 27 m

2010
Not Rated
First Run Features
1 h 27 m

Kings of Pastry

Name: Kings of Pastry
Genre: Documentary, Drama, Family, History
Released: 2010-09-15
Duration: 1 min 27 s
Rating: 69
Cast: Jacquy Pfeiffer, Regis Lazard, Philippe Rigollot, Rachel Beaudry, Sebastien Canonne

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews

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Directed By: D.A. Pennebaker

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews

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Generally Favorable Based on 11 Critic Reviews

64% Positive
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Los Angeles Times

The French, no one needs to be told, take food and food preparation with extreme seriousness. "There are no 'all-you-can eat' places in France," one chef sniffs in this excellent Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker documentary. "The idea is to eat small amounts of the best food."

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Miami Herald

Dec 9, 2010

Some of the creations these chefs produce defy belief (and make you wish you could jump into the screen to have a taste).

By Rene Rodriguez FULL REVIEW

Boston Globe

Kings of Pastry, goes inside an intense event that few Americans know much about - a kind of tradesmen's Olympics.

By Janice Page FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

The film builds in interest and intrigue as it goes along, helped immeasurably by the directors' choice - canny or fortunate or both - of the astonishingly good-natured and likable Jacquy Pfeiffer, an Alsace-born, Chicago-based chef, as their chief protagonist.

By Mike Hale FULL REVIEW

Boxoffice Magazine

The work is a brutal rite of passage that will click with anybody who has put it all out there and lost once, twice or thrice. And still got up to face the music again.

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Time Out

Common wisdom suggests bakers are sour because they reserve the sweetness for their work. But these competitors' kindness in the face of adversity-at one point, a well-established chef breaks down in tears while his colleagues comfort him-is what sticks with you the most.

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Village Voice

Most of the culinary footage is devoted to documenting-in flat, dull DV-the finalists' piece montée, or "sugar showpiece," in which sucrose is manipulated for its chemical properties, and dessert becomes a weird, often tacky sculpture.

By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Pennebaker Hegedus Films, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO)

Release Date Sep 15, 2010

Duration 1 h 27 m

Rating Not Rated

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Jacquy Pfeiffer

Self - MOF Finalist

Regis Lazard

Self - MOF Finalist

Philippe Rigollot

Self - MOF Finalist

Rachel Beaudry

Self - Jacquy Pfeiffer's Girlfriend

Sebastien Canonne

Self - MOF

Stephane Glacier

Self - MOF

Frederique Lazard

Self - Regis Lazard's Wife

Philippe Urraca

Self - MOF

Pierre Zimmermann

Self - Baker

Nicolas Sarkozy

Self

Kurt Fogle

Self - Jacquy Pfeiffer's Assistant Chef

Gabrielle Montalbano

Self - Rachel Beaudry's Daughter

Hailey Montalbano

Self - Rachel Beaudry's Daughter

Alex Pfeiffer

Self - Jacquy Pfeiffer's Daughter

Thierry Bamas

Self - MOF Finalist

Yann Brys

Self - MOF Finalist

David Capy

Self - MOF Finalist

Laurent Cordonnier

Self - MOF Finalist

Franck Cosyns

Self - MOF Finalist

Laurent Kieny

Self - MOF Finalist

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