The Taste of Things

2023 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / History / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 77% · 198 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 77% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.4/10 10 20203 20.2K

affectation french cuisine intimate

Plot summary

Set in 1889 France, Dodin Bouffant is a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.

Director

Anh Hung Tran Photo
Anh Hung Tran

Top cast

Juliette Binoche Photo
Juliette Binoche as Eugénie
Benoît Magimel Photo
Benoît Magimel as Dodin Bouffant
Sarah Adler Photo
Sarah Adler as La mère de Pauline
Laurent Claret Photo
Laurent Claret as Médecin
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1.21 GB
1280*692
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr   us   nl   vi  
24 fps
2 hr 15 min
Seeds 20
1.21 GB
1280*694
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr   us   nl   vi  
24 fps
2 hr 15 min
Seeds 24
2.49 GB
1920*1038
French 5.1
NR
Subtitles fr   us   nl   vi  
24 fps
2 hr 15 min
Seeds 20
2.49 GB
1920*1040
French 5.1
NR
Subtitles fr   us   nl   vi  
24 fps
2 hr 15 min
Seeds 22
2.26 GB
1920*1040
French 5.1
NR
Subtitles fr   us   nl   vi  
24 fps
2 hr 15 min
Seeds 94

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by srgymrat33 7 / 10

Like it for what it is

This is an exceptionally slow burn ( only in the allegorical sense , as they don't actually burn any of the food )The aesthetics are mesmerizing and the presentation of the food was enough to make me hungry, even never having eaten French food in my life and being extremely picky . It was a love letter to food , to cooking , to art , to patience and to a lifestyle that no longer exists .The natural feeling was amazing as well , these were good people , trustworthy people , people you want happiness for and want to win and that was all developed in the first scene , with no dialogue which is amazing filmmaking .Another major shout out goes to the sound editing / track . The sound of the garden and the kitchen felt so real and added to your closeness so the characters , their lives and the food itself .It's very very slow , it's very foreign , it's an art film and it's meant to develop at a snails pace . Appreciate that . Be ready for that and you'll love it. .
Reviewed by Lomax343 8 / 10

This film could only be made in French

I am, I admit, a Crocodile Dundee cook - you can live on it, but it tastes like s*** Nevertheless, I revere those who are masters in the gastronomic arts.Set in the 1870's, this film is a hymn to the pleasures of the table. The camera lingers lovingly over every pot and pan, every ingredient, every procedure, to the extent that it would have been wrong for the film to have been in any language but French. Anyone who can watch this film without salivating has no soul.The plot is secondary to the food. Dodin (Benoit Magimel) is an expert, though amateur cook, whose hobby is hosting dinner-parties for a group of friends. For twenty years, Dodin has employed Eugenie (Juliette Binoche) as his cook, though she's far more than that. They sleep together, though she repeatedly declines his offers of marriage. Both performances are nigh-on perfect. There's also a young girl, the daughter of a neighbour, who has superlative taste-buds, and who wants to be taken on as an apprentice.There's a bit more plot than that, including a comic dig at those who equate excess with excellence, but everything is subordinate to cooking and eating - and the actors do actually eat the food. One thing that grates with me is films where people don't actually eat the food in front of them.I left the cinema hungry, and wishing that I had the patience and the dedication (and the time) to cook like that.Oh, and though I grudgingly accept that, with the possible exception of the Chinese, the French are the finest cooks on Earth, I draw the line at ortolan.
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