The Taste of Things (2023)
(La passion de Dodin Bouffant)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 135m
Director: Tran Anh Hung
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Bonnie Chagneau-Ravoire, Galatéa Bellugi
Synopsis:
A gourmet landowner and his cook express their love for one another through their shared passion. But as he finally breaks down her resistance to becoming his wife, fate takes a hand.
Review:
The Vietnamese director brings his artist's eye and close observance of cultural detail to a story of gastronomy of the gallic kind. Set in fin-de-siècle rural France, at a time when traditional methods still held sway (lots of cream, generous portions), it devotes equally copious amounts of screen time to the practice and precepts of cooking (the opening twenty minutes or so are an almost wordless document of the preparation of a particularly fine meal for Bouffant and his gourmet friends). The film is a hymn to taking time over the good things in life, as it is to the unending quest for new flavours and fresh juxtapositions, as well as to the value of passing knowledge on, with Eugénie's successor signalled from the first scene in the shape of Pauline.
(La passion de Dodin Bouffant)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 135m
Director: Tran Anh Hung
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Bonnie Chagneau-Ravoire, Galatéa Bellugi
Synopsis:
A gourmet landowner and his cook express their love for one another through their shared passion. But as he finally breaks down her resistance to becoming his wife, fate takes a hand.
Review:
The Vietnamese director brings his artist's eye and close observance of cultural detail to a story of gastronomy of the gallic kind. Set in fin-de-siècle rural France, at a time when traditional methods still held sway (lots of cream, generous portions), it devotes equally copious amounts of screen time to the practice and precepts of cooking (the opening twenty minutes or so are an almost wordless document of the preparation of a particularly fine meal for Bouffant and his gourmet friends). The film is a hymn to taking time over the good things in life, as it is to the unending quest for new flavours and fresh juxtapositions, as well as to the value of passing knowledge on, with Eugénie's successor signalled from the first scene in the shape of Pauline.
(La passion de Dodin Bouffant)
Country: FR/BEL
Technical: col 135m
Director: Tran Anh Hung
Cast: Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Bonnie Chagneau-Ravoire, Galatéa Bellugi
Synopsis:
A gourmet landowner and his cook express their love for one another through their shared passion. But as he finally breaks down her resistance to becoming his wife, fate takes a hand.
Review:
The Vietnamese director brings his artist's eye and close observance of cultural detail to a story of gastronomy of the gallic kind. Set in fin-de-siècle rural France, at a time when traditional methods still held sway (lots of cream, generous portions), it devotes equally copious amounts of screen time to the practice and precepts of cooking (the opening twenty minutes or so are an almost wordless document of the preparation of a particularly fine meal for Bouffant and his gourmet friends). The film is a hymn to taking time over the good things in life, as it is to the unending quest for new flavours and fresh juxtapositions, as well as to the value of passing knowledge on, with Eugénie's successor signalled from the first scene in the shape of Pauline.