Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel in The Taste Of Things. Binoche on working with her former real-life partner: 'There were shared emotions, and we found again the happiness of just being together' Photo: Stephanie Branchu It wasn’t an obvious dream ticket to pair Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel together for costume film The Taste Of Things, which is set in the world of gastronomy. Although they share a daughter they hadn’t had much contact since they split up some two decades previously. The last time they had worked together was on the romantic drama Children Of The Century in 1999.
The French-Vietnamese director Trần Anh Hùng who won the Cannes Film Festival’s Camera d’Or for his first feature The Scent of the Green Papya in 1993, decided to risk it for his adaptation of Marcel Rouff’s novel La Vie et la Passion de Dodin Bouffant.
Binoche was...
The French-Vietnamese director Trần Anh Hùng who won the Cannes Film Festival’s Camera d’Or for his first feature The Scent of the Green Papya in 1993, decided to risk it for his adaptation of Marcel Rouff’s novel La Vie et la Passion de Dodin Bouffant.
Binoche was...
- 2/11/2024
- by Richard Mowe
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
In September 2023, The Film By the Sea Festival in Vlissingen focused on French cinema, and on literary book adaptations. With Trần Anh Hùng's The Taste of Things they scored a double-whammy, as it falls in both categories. A loose adaptation of Marcel Rouff's 1924 novel La Vie et la Passion de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet, The Taste of Things is a surprisingly enjoyable film, a veritable highlight of cinema this year. Director Trần Anh Hùng makes peculiar films, but he makes them well. The famous Japanese writer Murakami stated that Trần was the only director allowed to adapt his novel Norwegian Wood, and Trần's latest, The Taste of Things, even won the 'Best Director' award in Cannes this year. And no wonder, as while its story...
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- 2/8/2024
- Screen Anarchy
Where’s the Beef?: Tran Anh Hung Activates the Salivary Glands
Gastronomy has never seemed so forlornly romantic as it is in Tran Anh Hung’s sumptuous foodie procedural, The Taste of Things (aka The Pot au Feu). The film’s French language title, La Passion de Dodin Bouffant, is a modified version of the 1924 Marcel Rouff novel from which the film is adapted, and ultimately a bit more fitting than the titular dish which plays a minor role amongst a variety of other lavish epicurean delights. Notably, the film unites Benoit Magimel and Juliette Binoche, who originally met on the set of 1999’s Children of the Century, which inspired a high profile romance, making their fateful relationship here all the more potently melancholic.…...
Gastronomy has never seemed so forlornly romantic as it is in Tran Anh Hung’s sumptuous foodie procedural, The Taste of Things (aka The Pot au Feu). The film’s French language title, La Passion de Dodin Bouffant, is a modified version of the 1924 Marcel Rouff novel from which the film is adapted, and ultimately a bit more fitting than the titular dish which plays a minor role amongst a variety of other lavish epicurean delights. Notably, the film unites Benoit Magimel and Juliette Binoche, who originally met on the set of 1999’s Children of the Century, which inspired a high profile romance, making their fateful relationship here all the more potently melancholic.…...
- 2/5/2024
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The smell of the chocolate chip cookies is intoxicating. Juliette Binoche eats several as we talk at the London Hotel about the experience of shooting Anh Hung Tran’s celebration of sumptuous cooking, “The Taste of Things”, which won the Best Director award at Cannes and beat out “Anatomy of a Fall” to become France’s official Oscar submission. Binoche scoffs at the suggestion that the 19th-century romance about Eugénie (Binoche), who cooks for gourmet Dodin (Benoît Magimel), is in any way stuffy or conventional.
“It is showing this lifestyle that is different from nowadays,” she said. “It has to do with another rhythm, a slow motion in the way of living, taking in the environment, taking in feelings, taking in what you do. I don’t live this kind of life, and a lot of people don’t. And this film is very provocative. It looks like she is submissive to him,...
“It is showing this lifestyle that is different from nowadays,” she said. “It has to do with another rhythm, a slow motion in the way of living, taking in the environment, taking in feelings, taking in what you do. I don’t live this kind of life, and a lot of people don’t. And this film is very provocative. It looks like she is submissive to him,...
- 12/9/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Tran Anh Hung’s The Taste of Things is almost halfway done before it even hints that there’s something going on within its fin-de-siècle setting besides the creation and consumption of beautiful meals. The film’s first half hour is in fact just that, with Eugénie (Juliette Binoche), a veteran cook in the manor home of Dodin (Benoît Magimel), the epicure for whom she’s been working for over 20 years, making an extravagant, multi-course meal for him and his friends. The men eat the food, then compliment Eugénie on her cooking.
Given the close yet unfussy attention paid to the choreography of cooking, with Jonathan Ricquebourg’s camera flowing sinuously through the kitchen and peeking into pots as ingredients are added and steam billows out, it would have been satisfying if Hung had just concluded the film with well-fed Frenchmen chatting over a digestif. Fortunately, he’s interested not...
Given the close yet unfussy attention paid to the choreography of cooking, with Jonathan Ricquebourg’s camera flowing sinuously through the kitchen and peeking into pots as ingredients are added and steam billows out, it would have been satisfying if Hung had just concluded the film with well-fed Frenchmen chatting over a digestif. Fortunately, he’s interested not...
- 11/29/2023
- by Chris Barsanti
- Slant Magazine
French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung spoke about the making of “The Taste of Things” (previously titled “The Pot-au-Feu”) the food-themed romantic drama that won him best director award at Cannes this year, at the master class held Tuesday at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
Screening in TIFF’s Gala section, the film stars Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel as respectively a chef and gourmet. Set in 1885, the film depicts their relationship, which mixes romance with food, based on a 1924 novel by Marcel Rouff. It has been selected by France as its international Oscar contender.
“I had always wanted to make a film about food,” Hung told the audience. “Cooking is an art form. I also wanted to make a film about the love between a couple in the autumn of their lives.”
He said that the project had a gestation going back two decades when Binoche and Magimel were romantically linked in real life.
Screening in TIFF’s Gala section, the film stars Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel as respectively a chef and gourmet. Set in 1885, the film depicts their relationship, which mixes romance with food, based on a 1924 novel by Marcel Rouff. It has been selected by France as its international Oscar contender.
“I had always wanted to make a film about food,” Hung told the audience. “Cooking is an art form. I also wanted to make a film about the love between a couple in the autumn of their lives.”
He said that the project had a gestation going back two decades when Binoche and Magimel were romantically linked in real life.
- 10/24/2023
- by Mark Schilling
- Variety Film + TV
Eugénie (Juliette Binoche) and Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel) go about their work in a large kitchen with grace and care in this adaptation of Marcel Rouff’s book. It’s the 1880s France so there are no gadgets here, just graft and an oven to die for. The pair cook together in mostly companionable silence, with their helper Violette (Galatea Bellugi), to bring together a meal that is fit to make cinemagoers’ stomachs grumble as we enviously look on. Their movements suggest a symbiosis that can only be achieved over time, simmering gently just as the Pot-au-Feu of the original French title needs to do in order to achieve the perfect harmonious result.
This gourmand and his cook appear like a long-wed couple, and in many ways they are. Their marriage, however, has not been via vows but stems from a shared commitment to the culinary arts that has led to a.
This gourmand and his cook appear like a long-wed couple, and in many ways they are. Their marriage, however, has not been via vows but stems from a shared commitment to the culinary arts that has led to a.
- 10/19/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Vietnamese-born French director Trần Anh Hùng's is famous for films like The Scent of Green Papaya, Cyclo and Norwegian Wood. His newest film The Taste of Things won him the prize of Best Director at Cannes this year, and has just been chosen as the French selection for the Academy Award for best Foreign-language Film. That means the film has to play in the United States in 2023, and to that effect IFC Films will distribute it in a limited release in December, after which a full roll-out will happen in February 2024. With a release comes a trailer, and here it is. The film is a loose adaptation of Marcel Rouff's 1924 novel 'La Vie et la Passion de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet' (which translates as...
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- 10/6/2023
- Screen Anarchy
The Film By the Sea Festival in Vlissingen focused this year on French cinema, and on literary book adaptations. With Trần Anh Hùng's The Taste of Things they scored a double-whammy, as it falls in both categories. A loose adaptation of Marcel Rouff's 1924 novel 'La Vie et la Passion de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet', The Taste of Things is a surprisingly enjoyable film, a veritable highlight of cinema this year. Director Trần Anh Hùng makes peculiar films, but he makes them well. The famous Japanese writer Murakami stated that Trần was the only director allowed to adapt his novel Norwegian Wood, and Trần's latest, The Taste of Things, even won the 'Best Director' award in Cannes this year. And no wonder, as while its story seems...
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- 9/19/2023
- Screen Anarchy
Trần Anh Hùng’s “The Pot au Feu” has been acquired by Sapan Studios and IFC Films for domestic distribution. Produced by Olivier Delbosc and based upon Marcel Rouff’s novel “La Vie et la Passion de Dodin-Bouffant, gourmet,” the picture is set in late 19th-century France and concerns a relationship between an esteemed chef (Benoît Magimel) and his personal cook (Juliette Binoche), who is also his lover. The catch is Eugénie refuses to marry her employer and lover so, to win her over, the chef does something he has never done before and cooks for her.
To film cuisine in an unprecedented fashion, the director called upon Pierre Gagnaire as Culinary Director to prepare the food prior to filming. There was no fake food on the set and capturing the presentation required unrelenting discipline from technical teams who were bound to almost choreographic movements.
“Trần Anh Hùng’s sumptuous...
To film cuisine in an unprecedented fashion, the director called upon Pierre Gagnaire as Culinary Director to prepare the food prior to filming. There was no fake food on the set and capturing the presentation required unrelenting discipline from technical teams who were bound to almost choreographic movements.
“Trần Anh Hùng’s sumptuous...
- 6/13/2023
- by Scott Mendelson
- The Wrap
Nothing says French and Cannes more than amour, food and Juliette Binoche on the big screen. The Chocolat actress is back on the Croisette with the Tràn Anh Hùng’s movie, The Pot a Feu, and if you’re too much of a curmudgeon for the hanky panky and schmaltz in the movie, well then perhaps the filmmaker can win over your stomach with lush shots of cuisine.
Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero centered around anti-foodie folk in Mia Wasikowska’s stern nutrition teacher who inculcates her students with a philosophy of anorexia. The Pot a Feu is, oh, so the polar opposite. A Babette’s Feast and Like Water for Chocolate of sorts, the pic set in a 19th century French Loire Valley château and centers around gourmet Dodin (Benoît Magimel), and his longtime cook and collaborator Eugenie (Binoche), his cook and collaborator of over 20 years. While they sleep in separate beds,...
Jessica Hausner’s Club Zero centered around anti-foodie folk in Mia Wasikowska’s stern nutrition teacher who inculcates her students with a philosophy of anorexia. The Pot a Feu is, oh, so the polar opposite. A Babette’s Feast and Like Water for Chocolate of sorts, the pic set in a 19th century French Loire Valley château and centers around gourmet Dodin (Benoît Magimel), and his longtime cook and collaborator Eugenie (Binoche), his cook and collaborator of over 20 years. While they sleep in separate beds,...
- 5/25/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
There’s food porn, which shows like Chef’s Table and Top Chef, not to mention last year’s horror hit movie The Menu, have turned into widely popular entertainment. And then there’s art house food porn, a subgenre that possibly dates back to Marco Ferreri’s 1973 satire La Grande Bouffe, and whose other examples include Babette’s Feast, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, Tampopo, Chocolat and Like Water for Chocolate. The latter films tend to be made in a language other than English, and they’re less about chefs competing for Michelin stars, or glowing reviews from Pete Wells, than about food as a way of life.
Where else but France, then, as the setting for the latest, and certainly one of the most appetizing, art house food porn flicks to come along in a while? Tràn Anh Hùng’s The Pot-au-Feu (La Passion du Dodin-Bouffant) is...
Where else but France, then, as the setting for the latest, and certainly one of the most appetizing, art house food porn flicks to come along in a while? Tràn Anh Hùng’s The Pot-au-Feu (La Passion du Dodin-Bouffant) is...
- 5/24/2023
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Binoche and Benoît Magimel serve this Belle Époque tale of meaningful meals very well, but some may wish for a pinch of salt
Here is a beautifully shot movie from that estimable film-maker Tran Anh Hung – but it’s in a genre about which I am agnostic, the “foodie” vein, in which we are supposed to swoon over all the endless gastronomic detail and mouthwatering fare, and in which food tends to be somewhat glibly presented as a metaphor for sharing, for family and for friendship.
The Pot-au-Feu, starring Benoît Magimel and Juliette Binoche, set in the Belle Époque, is adapted by the director from the 1924 novel The Life and Passion of Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet by the author, gourmand and boulevardier Marcel Rouff. Magimel plays Dodin, a passionate gourmet living in some style, partly based on the legendary real-life gastronome Jean Brillat-Savarin. Dodin is not running a restaurant – he’s just...
Here is a beautifully shot movie from that estimable film-maker Tran Anh Hung – but it’s in a genre about which I am agnostic, the “foodie” vein, in which we are supposed to swoon over all the endless gastronomic detail and mouthwatering fare, and in which food tends to be somewhat glibly presented as a metaphor for sharing, for family and for friendship.
The Pot-au-Feu, starring Benoît Magimel and Juliette Binoche, set in the Belle Époque, is adapted by the director from the 1924 novel The Life and Passion of Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmet by the author, gourmand and boulevardier Marcel Rouff. Magimel plays Dodin, a passionate gourmet living in some style, partly based on the legendary real-life gastronome Jean Brillat-Savarin. Dodin is not running a restaurant – he’s just...
- 5/24/2023
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
In the rose-gray light of dawn, Juliette Binoche strides through a verdant kitchen garden, wearing a straw hat as wide and undulating as an ocean wave. She plucks a majestically large, gnarled celeriac from the earth and sniffs it deeply and fondly, as if inhaling mythical ambrosia, and takes it back to the house. This is how Tràn Anh Hùng’s “The Taste of Things” opens, which is to say on a note of sensory reverence and a hint of kitsch, in knowing thrall to one of the less pretty vegetables in nature’s cornucopia. There are people — this critic included — who will watch this scene and immediately sense with a hungry tingle that the film to come has been made expressly for their palate, and there is everyone else. “The Taste of Things” is not for everyone else, and that’s just fine.
Thirty years after his first feature...
Thirty years after his first feature...
- 5/24/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
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