Anthony Bourdain

As a film about a person never at ease with himself, Roadrunner: A Film about Anthony Bourdain sketches a compelling if depressing picture – of a man who at first didn’t have it all and was unhappy, and then did have it all and was still unhappy. Bourdain died in 2018 and had been famous since his 2000 memoir Kitchen Confidential turned him into a celebrity at a global level. “It was literally overnight,” he remembers in archive footage. Roadrunner begins his story about there, barely touching on his years as a heroin addict, a vital piece of the Bourdain jigsaw. Merely alluding to the bookish child with a rebellious streak who’d wound … Read more