Boiling Point (2021)
Directed by Philip Barantini
A head chef balances multiple personal and professional crises at a popular restaurant in London.
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Director Philip Barantini has recast the fashionable trick of the one-shot film, like Birdman or Russian Ark before it, to illuminate more intimate, workaday truths.
When directors decide to journey down the one-take path (either genuinely or edited to appear that way), it’s usually in service of making the theatrical even more theatrical (“Birdman”), the horrifying more unrelenting (“1917”), or the thrills even more thrilling (“Victoria”).
No secret cuts, no secret edits, no Birdman funny business.
The one-take film has grown in popularity over the years, from Oscar winner Birdman and 1917 , to indie thrillers Watch the Sunset and One Shot .
Apparently achieved without the “cheating” evident in (ostensible) one-shot recent sensations Birdman and 1917 — and thus more comparable to Sebastian Schipper’s 140-minute 2015 technical tour-de-force Victoria — this logistically nightmarish affair was, like all the best meals, assembled with the benefit of considerable “prepping.”
Famous examples include Russian Ark , Victoria and Birdman .
There are many other films that you're less likely to have seen: most Ryan Reynolds fans have probably not seen Buried (they should).
Similar to Sebastian Shipper’s Victoria (2015) and Sam Mendes’ 1917 ( 2019), it’s a means of immersing viewers into the story.
For instance, Sam Mendes’s 1917 (2019) is shot to look like a oner but it’s clearly not as the story takes place over a period of time longer than the runtime.