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Reviews
Kusama: Infinity (2018)
Lifelong fight for recognition
A remarkable, provocative, innovative artist in canvas, art installations, and even performance art protests. Decades ahead of her time, she fought hard her whole life against the establishment but found her ideas constantly stolen and capitalized on by men. Even when hospitalized for her obsessive compulsions, she was nonetheless prolifically productive. Her mirrored rooms and penis-covered furniture are the perfect fodder for social media, and she finally got the recognition she deserved when almost 60 - her works and installations now garner millions.
This documentary is well researched and illustrated by contemporary footage.
Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles (2020)
Ostentatious creativity
This documentary is a delightful exploration of the excess of Versailles, and what it meant in its day, and how it was recreated in a tense and exuberant spectacle of modern gastronomic creativity for an event at the Met museum in NYC.
You witness how each pastry chef was selected for the event, what sparked their imagination about Versailles, and how they adapted their unique dessert style for the event. Their masterful creations astound.
As Ottolenghi points out, pastry chefs are the ones who transform and innovate their ingredients to the greatest extent among chef's, as their products often give no clue as to what went into the dish. Could it be chocolate, pastry, sugar, cream, jelly?