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SUGAR AND STARS

À la Belle Étoile

Sébastien Tulard | 2022 | 110 MINS
France
France

Raised between foster homes, a young man attempts to make his dream come true: to work with the greatest pastry chefs and become the best. Based on the life of celebrated pastry chef Yazid Ichemrahem.

In Detail

From an early age, Yazid (Riadh Belaïche) was passionate about baking. But to succeed in the elitist world of pastry-making, the young man had to learn self-control whilst being moved from one foster home to another.

From Épernay to Monaco to Paris, he will work with the greatest pastry chefs en route to competing in the World Pastry Championship. The exquisite desserts look almost too divine to eat. That their creator was once homeless, orbiting between a French Riviera luxury hotel kitchen and sleeping rough beneath the stars that continued to inspire him, is the paradox that underscores his defiantly ascendent life. Tulard's camera is agile and dynamic, and his film flows between documentary and a dash of magical realism that idealizes the work of the chef.

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