A disgraced chef gets one last shot at the top table, and the kitchen he builds to get there is as combustible as his own temper.
What is Burnt about?
Adam Jones once ran one of the most talked-about kitchens in Paris before addiction and a volatile streak burned every bridge he had. Sober and chastened, he arrives in London with a single goal: assemble a brigade good enough to win a third Michelin star and prove the wreckage of his past was not the whole story. He talks his way into a hotel restaurant, recruits a mix of old allies and wary new hires, and drives them through service after service with a perfectionism that borders on cruelty. The film follows the slow, uneven work of rebuilding trust — with staff who remember what he cost them, with a former colleague he wronged, and with himself — while plates go out under a clock that never stops. Comedy flares up between the tension, mostly at Jones's own expense, but the story stays fixed on whether talent alone can earn back what recklessness spent.
About the cast
Bradley Cooper anchors the film as Adam Jones, the chef whose ambition and self-destruction drive every scene. Around him, John Wells assembles a dense ensemble: Sienna Miller, Daniel Brühl, Omar Sy, Lily James, Alicia Vikander, Uma Thurman and Emma Thompson fill out the restaurant's staff, investors and the people from Jones's past he has to face again. The size of the cast lets the film treat the kitchen as its own small society, with its own hierarchy and grudges, rather than a backdrop for one man's comeback.
Context & significance
Kitchen dramas live or die on how convincingly they capture pressure, and Burnt leans into the mechanics of a professional service — tickets piling up, stations falling behind, a head chef whose standards outpace what any crew can consistently deliver. Set in London rather than Paris, where Jones made his name, the film treats the city's fine-dining scene as a second chance rather than familiar ground, raising the stakes on every dish that leaves the pass.
Watching Burnt on Ktime
Burnt is available with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles on K-Time, so viewers can choose either the original English performances with Farsi text or a fully dubbed track. The film page itself is open to read without an account; watching the film requires only a free K-Time login, with the interface presented in Farsi throughout for the Iranian diaspora audience.