The Taste of Things
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
Warm, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →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.
Our read · The Taste of Things (2023) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of The Taste of Things
What watching it is actually like.
“You want sensual French food romance that savors every kitchen gesture.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if subtitle-heavy slow food cinema will test your patience.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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