French Cuisine
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Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / music, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →François and Charlotte directed together a gourmet hotel and restaurant on the edge of the sea, but their marital relationship is not fixed beauty: obsessive hard, Francis wants his first star in the Michelin Guide while Charlotte, at the dawn of the quarantine, dreams of a first child. This already complicated situation will literally explode the day where Charlotte's first husband, Alex, disembarked in their lives while everyone believed him dead in the terrible tsunami of 2004...
Our read · French Cuisine (2015) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · music entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of French Cuisine
What watching it is actually like.
“You want farcical French comedy about a couple's restaurant and baby surprise.”
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The reading.
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