John Webster

Recipes for Disaster

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Edition 2009 — Movies
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Recipes for Disaster

John Webster

2008

85 min.

Finland

Finnish and English

Subtitles: Catalan and Spanish

The director's family go on an oil-free diet that will challenge their values, strengh and happiness.

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Show

Direction

John Webster

Sound

Pietari Koskinen

Distribution

DocsBarcelona Distribution

Production

Kristiina Pervilä

Script

John Webster

Cinematography

John Webster, Tuomo Hutri

Film Editor

Niels Pagh Andersen

Datasheet

Direction

John Webster

Sound

Pietari Koskinen

Distribution

DocsBarcelona Distribution

Production

Kristiina Pervilä

Script

John Webster

Cinematography

John Webster, Tuomo Hutri

Film Editor

Niels Pagh Andersen

Synopsis

Director John Webster convinces his wife and two small children that the whole family should go on an oil-free diet, yet without having to give up their a middle class suburban lifestyle. All the everyday things that we don’t do, or that we can’t help doing, make up recipes for disaster. In this comedy of errors they find themselves questioning their values and putting to test their will power and ultimately, their happiness.

About the direction

John Webster

Director

John Webster was born in Helsinki in 1967 to British parents. In 1996 he graduated from the Universi...

More info

DocsBarcelona Trajectory

2009

DocsBarcelona Festival

Edició 2009

2009

Docs del Mes · July

Edició 2009

Awards and festivals

Honorable Mention - Nordisk Panorama Film Festival

Sweeden, 2008

Best Documentary Film Jussi Awards

Finland, 2009

Reviews

“

Recipes for Disaster is a film full of attempts, simple wisdoms and learning situations making a strong reference to one’s own world.
— Films for the Earth

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