“Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain,” in theaters Friday. “One minute I was standing next to a deep fryer. The next I was watching the sun set over the Sahara.” It’s a jarring moment.
Just over three years after Bourdain was found dead by suicide at age 61 in a France hotel room by his good friend Eric Ripert, he is returned to us in voiceover.
Although now we know he is a uniquely unreliable narrator.“Here’s a little preemptive truth-telling,” Bourdain’s eerie narration continues. “There’s no happy ending.”The film’s director, Morgan Neville (“20 Feet From Stardom,” “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”), eschews Bourdain’s early life and starts in 1999, just before the publication of his groundbreaking best seller “Kitchen Confidential.” The.
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