SERGIO HERMAN FUCKING PERFECT

Director W.J.A. Kluijfhout
Producer Reinette van de Stadt for Trueworks
D.O.P. Remko Schnorr
Sound Bram Boers
Montage Saskia Kievits
Cast Sergio Herman, Ellemieke Vermolen, Syrco Bakker Nick Bril.
Music Trentemøller
Runtime 80 minutes
Year 2015

DISTRIBUTION

The Netherlands Cinema Delicatesse
Belgium              Dalton
World wide Fortissimo Films

WATCH

The Netherlands - www.npostart.nl
U.S - Amazone U.S

Sergio Herman F***cking Perfect

The very definition of driven top-chef, Sergio Herman strives for perfection every day.

When his father retired in 1999, he took the reins of the family restaurant, Oud Sluis, a seafood joint on the north coast of the Netherlands. Over the next 10 years, he transformed it into a 3 Michelin star-rated foodie destination, where reservations are booked out for a year.

He seemed to have it all—however, the beauty and success of his culinary art has a downside: the long hours, the competition, the continuous pressure. He is absent from his loving family, and the stress is taking its toll. He makes the difficult and radical decision to close Oud Sluis in order to focus on his family and mental health. Even after taking steps to slow things down, Sergio can’t help but start upgrading his second restaurant Pure C, while his brother Michel converts Oud Sluis into an unpretentious bistro and his wife takes first steps to start her own career.

Shot over a decade by Dutch documentarian Willemiek Kluijfhout (MUSSELS IN LOVE, SIFF 2013), this is both an insightful and loving portrait of an artist in transition. SERGIO HERMAN, FUCKING PERFECT hits on the doubts and feelings of every ambitious person out there, who have to make the choice posited by James M. Barrie in “Peter Pan”: You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."

 Source: SIFF 2015

“ Finger-licking good” - Hollywood reporter

World premiere Berlinale 2015

Special Jury Prize Best Director Seattle Film Festival 2015

Kristallen Film Netherlands 2015