Veteran filmmaker Frederick Wiseman applies his scrupulous eye to the Loire’s Michelin three-star Le Bois sans Feuilles ...

It isn’t often a viewer can binge-watch one show for four hours and never get to a second episode. But there are no second episodes in “Menus-Plaisirs—Les Troisgros.” Second courses, yes. And thirds.

The label of “documentary” can be a deceiving one. In a landscape dominated by authorized hagiographies and overwrought true crime stories, finding a film that documents more than a filmmaker’s ...

A menu is a living thing at any Michelin-starred restaurant — a script at the mercy of seasons, ingredients, personnel, and more — and a Michelin-starred restaurant is only as good as its ability to ...

A still from Frederick Wiseman's documentary 'Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros' where a group of chefs gather around a table to plan out a meal. Image via Film Forum Wiseman's latest documentary, ...

A still from director Frederick Wiseman’s "Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros." (Courtesy Zipporah Films Inc.) ”Cuisine is not the movies,” the grandfather of chef Michel Troisgros used to tell his ...

Exclusive: Wiseman brings his camera inside a three-star Michelin restaurant in rural central France for this kaleidoscopic portrait of a perfectionist family of chefs. Wiseman’s 44th doc takes us to ...

It’s the quiet that strikes you in “Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros,” a documentary rejoinder to every image of cacophonous haute cuisine environments — complete with clattering pans, hissing steam and ...

“Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros,” the latest film by legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman, details the inner workings of Le Bois sans Feuilles (The Forest Without Leaves), a three-star Michelin ...

Armed with baskets, Troisgros staff members set off to gather greens for the day's menu. Watch as Troisgros staff members, some armed with baskets, set off into the nearby woods to gather edible ...

Most people leave a meal at Le Bois sans Feuilles with a full stomach and a few Instagrams; Frederick Wiseman came away with a hyper-detailed film about the effort required to keep up with a living ...