In deciding to treat Anthony Bourdain as a mystery he’s trying to solve, 'Roadrunner' director Morgan Neville makes some ugly choices. alisonwillmore writes
This documentary about the life of the chef and travel-show host treats its subject like a mystery to be solved — and treats his death that way, too. Photo: Focus Features Anthony Bourdain died by suicide on June 8, 2018, and half of the people interviewed in Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain don’t seem like they’re ready to talk about it.
Neville, who got his start with episodes of Biography on A&E, and holds the current category box-office record with his bittersweet 2018 Mr. Rogers portrait, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, is certainly conscious of this. It’s why, surely, he tries to frame his film as an investigation instead.
But when the film approaches the final years of Bourdain’s life, it starts to lose sight of him amid the sense of betrayal felt by so many people close to him. As it tries to piece together his mental and emotional state in the time leading up to his death, its attempts to find reasons for what happened next start settling helplessly around the messy figure of Asia Argento.
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