The Taste of Things

The Taste of Things

La Passion de Dodin Bouffant Director Tran Anh Hung

2 hr. 14 min. · France, Belgium, 2023 · Romance · French · Subtitles: Lithuanian, English · Pegi 13

About the film

Dodin Bouffant is a famed gourmet, whose twenty-year relationship with his private chef has mellowed into a soulmate bond. He desperately wants to marry her. She’s skeptical, preferring their current arrangement to a conventional partnership. The thing that keeps them together is their obsession with food: preparing it, eating it, talking about it. So what better way for him to convince her to settle down than to cook her a meal?

Director Anh Hung Tran combines culinary and sensual delight in the tradition of the best food films, providing a cinematix experience that’s as rich and mouthwatering as it is moving.

Details

Running time
2 hr. 14 min.
Country, year
France, Belgium, 2023
Genre
Romance
Language
French
Subtitles
Lithuanian, English
Age rating
Pegi 13

Credits

Director
Tran Anh Hung
Screenplay
Tran Anh Hung
Producers
Curiosa Films, France 2 Cinéma, Gaumont, Umedia
Cinematography
Jonathan Ricquebourg
Cast
Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Galatea Bellug, Bonnie Chagneau-Ravoire, Emmanuel Salinger
More information
www.imdb.com

Festivals and awards

  • Cannes Film Festival Best Direction
Tran Anh Hung

Director

Tran Anh Hung

Tran Anh Hung has directed three feature films and two short films in a little over ten years. He is presently the most globally acclaimed director of Vietnamese descent. His films have won him international praise and awards, including a “Golden Lion” (best film at the Venice Film Festival), a “César” (best first film) and an “Academy Award nomination” for best foreign film.