Marcella

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Marcella

2025,

1h 37m,

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Marcella Hazan didn't just teach Italian cooking--she changed the way America eats. Fearless, passionate, and exacting, she introduced authentic recipes to millions. Julia Child called Marcella "my mentor in all things Italian." Featuring Jacques Pépin, Danny Meyer, April Bloomfield, and Lidia Bastianich, this intimate portrait reveals the bold woman who forever shaped home kitchens.

Tim Cogshell

FilmWeek (LAist)

Jun 5, 2025

[Marcella's] whole point was: cooking is simple and you can prepare this meal while you're telling a story. And that's what they do across the arc of this film and I just loved it.

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Guy Lodge

Variety

May 12, 2025

"Marcella,” Peter Miller‘s formulaic but enjoyable documentary, ultimately presents classic Italian cuisine as a mistress to whom even doyennes like Hazan are beholden.

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Cortlyn Kelly

RogerEbert.com

May 9, 2025

3/4

This film doesn’t give us Hazan’s best recipes; it uses Marcella’s approach to cooking to memorably tell her story.

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Louisa Moore

Screen Zealots

Jun 11, 2025

A documentary that indulges in its appetite for nostalgia and inspiration with a heartfelt portrait of a woman who revolutionized the American kitchen.

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Dorothy Woodend

The Tyee (British Columbia)

Jun 5, 2025

The bare facts of the film, like Hazan’s recipes, are straightforward, but the magic takes place when food, memory and connection transform the basic ingredients into something numinous.

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Gerald Peary

Arts Fuse

May 15, 2025

Several of the most delightful scenes in Marcella feature young chefs, Hazan acolytes, making her most iconic dishes. Baked chicken done with salt and two lemons sewn inside. That’s all.

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Peter Miller

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Marcella Hazan

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Jacques Pépin

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Lidia Bastianich

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April Bloomfield

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Danny Meyer

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Marcella Hazan didn't just teach Italian cooking--she changed the way America eats. Fearless, passionate, and exacting, she introduced authentic recipes to millions. Julia Child called Marcella "my mentor in all things Italian." Featuring Jacques Pépin, Danny Meyer, April Bloomfield, and Lidia Bastianich, this intimate portrait reveals the bold woman who forever shaped home kitchens.

Director: Peter Miller
Producer: Peter Miller, Renée Frigo, Amy Carey
Screenwriter: Peter Miller
Distributor: Greenwich Entertainment
Production Co: Oak Street Pictures, Willow Pond Films
Genre: Biography, Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 9, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 9, 2025
Runtime: 1h 37m

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