This was like watching some grand French painting in motion, it is so beautifully filmed, edited, so colorful. I don't think it actually is a "foodie movie" despite the prolonged scenes of complex French food preparation, cooking, serving and pleasure. At the end of the movie there is a wonderful coda scene, which I will not reveal, except that it resonates back to a scene in which Dodin has a monologue about the physical and physiological process of consuming and enjoying a morsel of food. You know all along that there is something wrong with Eugenie (Binoche) but you don't quite understand what exactly is wrong with Dodin. It will take some thinking over.
By the way, you should look up what an "ortolan" is.
By the way, you should look up what an "ortolan" is.