The taste of things, the new film by Trần Anh Hùng is a concentration of flavors and colours, essences and sensations. After winning the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival and having represented France in the Oscar race, finally arrives in our cinemas on May 9th distributed by Lucky Red, immersing ourselves in a setting that smells of history and which sees at the forefront an excellent cook named Eugénie, who has been the trusted collaborator of the famous gastronome Dodin for over twenty years. She plays it Juliette Binocheabsolutely perfect in lending her face to a woman of great talent and beauty who, in late 19th century France, decides to hold on to her freedom and not marry Dodin, played by the César Prize winner Benoît Magimel, leaving their culinary and sentimental partnership not to pass through a promise on the altar.
Hence Dodin's desire to do something he has never done before: cook for her, paying homage to the talent and love of a woman who, perhaps unconsciously, he seemed to take for granted. «The beauty of their relationship lies in that resistance. Dodin is still in love with her after all these years because he feels he has never possessed her in her entirety. A part of her still resists. However, when it comes to food, they are in perfect communion. This is the source of their chemistry: it elevates the gastronomy as a true art”, explains the director of The taste of things Trần Anh Hùng, who relied on the consultancy of the Starred chef Pierre Gagnaire.
«The rhythms of the cinema and the kitchen are different, as frenetic in a restaurant as they are chaotic at the cinema, but in both disciplines teamwork is vital. What could a director do without the director of photography, without the electricians and the financiers? And what could I do without collaborators, without sous chefs?”, declared Gagnaire, certain that the ultimate meaning of the show lies in the synergy and interlocking between the parts. The result is a film like The taste of things, wrapped in a sort of poetry and emotional tension which seems to truly melt only at the table and which, as we show you in the preview clip above, is also capable of giving beauty and harmony.
Source: Vanity Fair
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