Tony (dir. Matthew Johnson 1h46m)
Set across one summer in the early adulthood of the acclaimed celebrity chef and author Anthony Bourdain, Tony concerns itself with the failings it took to get there. Specifically, it examines the role of providence, a word that crops up recurrently across its compact runtime: how one can fail so crushingly and by that transformative experience land at just the place one needs to be.
Reflecting in his autobiography decades later, Bourdain stated that he was, at that time, “to be frank – a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, and badly in need of a good ass-kicking”. The film dishes that out readily.
