Behind the scenes: Boiling Point

Stephen Graham is a chef with a simmering temper in a feature length one-take kitchen drama filmed at a real-life restaurant. Director Philip Barantini and cinematographer Matthew Lewis explain how it was done.

The trick with running a restaurant is to make it look effortless and you can argue the same is true of filmmaking. New feature Boiling Point peels away the serene service of fine dining to reveal the raw tension of a chef on the edge and does so in an ambitious 90-minute single take that dissolves completely into the drama.

Boiling Point is directed by Philip Barantini, photographed by Matthew Lewis and stars Stephen Graham (The Virtues, The Irishman) who together tested the one-shot technique to film a 20-minute Bifa nominated short of the same name in 2019.

“The idea to do a ‘one-er’ was ...

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