On Film, the Romance of French Cooking Is Forever
The movies ‘The Taste of Things’ and ‘Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgrois’ both bask in the fantasy of food and the work it takes to create it.
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The movies ‘The Taste of Things’ and ‘Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgrois’ both bask in the fantasy of food and the work it takes to create it.
The Taste of Things, which is this year’s French entry for best international film at the Oscars, is a gastro-film but it is not of the ‘Angry Male Chef’ genre. It’s not Boiling Point or The Menu or The Bear. It is not stressful or adrenaline-filled. No one swears or screams ‘Yes, chef!’ Instead, it
Juliette Binoche starsin France's Academy Award entry for Best International Film, Taste of Things and as Coco Chanel in AppleTV+'s new series The New Look.
“The Taste of Things” is so simple, so much a grand luminous romantic story, nothing written about it will charm and delight you as the watching of it., J.P. Devine writes.
The first half-hour of The Taste of Things is entirely taken up with the characters preparing a meal. First, a simple omelet for themselves: “I advise you to eat it with a spoon. It makes all the difference.” Then the real work begins for the honored guests dropping by their estate for dinner: seafood consommé, a