Saw it at a local film club a couple of weeks ago and loved it – however the DVD (which we are sure will be fine) is still in its packaging awaiting a winter’s night from which we can escape to sunny France…with the sound of Black Woodpeckers drumming away.
A great film. I saw it in the cinema but I’m about to purchase the DVD so that it can be a partner film to Babette’s Feast.
It doesn’t pretend to be anything other than it is – a period love story centred on two people who love food as much as each other. It’s gentle, warm, uplifting, heartbreaking, and a joyous celebration of an activity that we all engage in every day. The opening scene is stunning. The film is thought provoking and deserves to be given a chance to be viewed in its entirety, not skipped through scene by scene because you’re too lazy or impatient to let the story unfold as it was intended. It isn’t a mainstream Hollywood film, it doesn’t feature exciting blockbuster scenes of things blowing up, protagonists outwitting each other in moronically implausible ways, car chases, or people shooting each other. It has one sex scene which is so subtle and gorgeous and not in any way explicit – which makes it 100x more sensual and artful than anything most western films manage with their fake eroticism.
It’s a grown up, artistic film that will appeal to an audience who appreciate intelligent film making.
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Saw it at a local film club a couple of weeks ago and loved it – however the DVD (which we are sure will be fine) is still in its packaging awaiting a winter’s night from which we can escape to sunny France…with the sound of Black Woodpeckers drumming away.
It doesn’t pretend to be anything other than it is – a period love story centred on two people who love food as much as each other. It’s gentle, warm, uplifting, heartbreaking, and a joyous celebration of an activity that we all engage in every day. The opening scene is stunning. The film is thought provoking and deserves to be given a chance to be viewed in its entirety, not skipped through scene by scene because you’re too lazy or impatient to let the story unfold as it was intended. It isn’t a mainstream Hollywood film, it doesn’t feature exciting blockbuster scenes of things blowing up, protagonists outwitting each other in moronically implausible ways, car chases, or people shooting each other. It has one sex scene which is so subtle and gorgeous and not in any way explicit – which makes it 100x more sensual and artful than anything most western films manage with their fake eroticism.
It’s a grown up, artistic film that will appeal to an audience who appreciate intelligent film making.