I saw the Bourdain documentary that premiered at theaters tonight. Very compelling stuff, a must watch if you were a fan, though it could be a difficult watch for those who get emotional about his whole story. His inner circle participated, it was not exploitive, it was more about his life than his death. But it did address his last year in a way that was kind of surprising to me. Weird to have spoilers for a documentary, but, just to be safe:
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There was no overt accusations or criticism, but, the timing and tone and order of how things was presented very much pointed to Asia Argento basically upending the dynamic of his show and his life, making everything weird in the last year. (Or at least, that was the perspective of one of his producers). That producer described his final days and final Instagram post saying it "was all there" implying that the tabloid photos of Argento with another man being the thing that pushed him over the edge. I didn't know anything about her going in, and didn't know anything about his life he didn't share on his shows, so that was all surprising to see at least one person close to him pretty clearly pushing that narrative. Now I'm going down the rabbit hole of Bourdain paying off someone who accused Argento of sexually abusing him (which is not mentioned in the film). But all that wasn't what even that last part of the film was about. It was more about the people around him trying to come to terms with what happened, and all of them dealing with it different ways, but none of them really understanding. I liked that there was no narrator whatsoever, every word was spoken by the people around him, or Bourdain himself, and the story was entirely told through those people and what you saw.