The Taste of Things (2024-released French romance/food porn)

[Mister Six]

This is out in the US now, and probably in other countries too (although, weirdly, not France apparently...).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKKCGtoIOVY

It's just about the Frenchest film you can imagine: food, wine, romance, fellas with big noses, Juliette Binoche! And so lusciously, languorously shot - an aesthete's film, a sensualist's film, you can feel the texture of the fish as it is, in Binoche's own words, "caressed" in milk; smell the steam coming off the slowly reducing sauce; taste the meringue as it enters each waiting mouth.

There's a story here, too, just about - Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel) is "the Napoleon of cuisine", which means he crafts exquisite, world-renowned menus that his cook and creative partner of 20 years, Eugénie (Juliette Binoche), brings into being. She's also his romantic partner of quite some time too, but resists his continual proposals of marriage.

But then she falls ill, and Dodin dedicates himself to cooking for her - how will this change their romantic relationship?

The story is there and exquisitely acted by the two leads, but it's really just a justification for some of the most beautifully shot scenes of cooking and rural life you're likely to see this year - maybe this decade. It's a film to be enjoyed for the sheer pleasure of sensation, much like a fine meal.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Juliette Bi-nosh.

I saw this the other day and it was, as the French would say, very good (if the French were speaking English). I don't really have much to add. As you said, the story is rather slight, but the film's sensual pleasures more than make up for it. There's so much love evident in the cooking scenes that I never questioned their relationship, unlike Past Lives.

[madhair60]

havent seen this but i love food

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Go to France. Judging by this film, they never stop eating.

[Noodle Lizard]

What is it then? All frog's legs and foreign muck, I expect.

Why can't we just get a film about a nice pasty these days?

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

There was a pie.

[Dex Sawash]

There was a pie.

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