Film Boiling Point: hold your breath and watch
The kitchen of a posh restaurant in London, the evening before Christmas. The tension is unbearable: the kitchen brigade is grumbling, the chef has major problems and, yep, at one of the tables someone is sitting there to write a review of the restaurant. And then Boiling Point has only just begun—a grippingly tense film.
Anyone who has ever worked in a restaurant kitchen, whether washing dishes or cooking, will recognize the situations in the incredibly suspenseful thriller Boiling Point. Taking a quick breath in the walk-in fridge, a minute to collect yourself: familiar. A kitchen brigade joking around, winding each other up and complaining to one another: who doesn’t know it? And a chef taking big swigs from the bottle of cooking wine in the pass: who can blame him?
From dishwasher to director
It’s no wonder that Boiling Point feels so realistic. Director Philip Barantini worked in restaurant kitchens for years, starting as a dishwasher and working his way up to chef. Viewers are also hugely enthusiastic about actor Stephen Graham. You could scrape the misery off his face, that’s how badly the man is doing. Tense as a violin string, pushed to his absolute limit—and his workday hasn’t even begun yet. Exceptionally well done; the entire film was shot in a single take, specifically to emphasize even more strongly the intense pressure of working in a restaurant.
Netflix
The film Boiling Point is available to watch on Netflix in England and Ireland, and it will also be released in cinemas in the Netherlands in the autumn, although that has not yet been confirmed. Or perhaps someone at Netflix’s Dutch headquarters could arrange something for us?
Image: still from Boiling Point (trailer)
