2023-11-14 07:47:20
Best Director Award at the last Cannes Film Festival, “The Passion of Dodin Bouffant” by Trần Anh Hùng is adapted from a novel by Swiss writer Marcel Rouff. It relates the romantic relationship between a cook and a gourmet lord, played by Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel.
In the 19th century, somewhere in France. Eugénie (Juliette Binoche) struggles in the vast kitchen of the castle of Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel) to cook the sumptuous dishes that the master of the place, “Napoleon of gastronomy”, is regarding to taste with four gourmet friends.
In the twenty years that she has been in his service, a free, carnal romantic relationship has developed between them. But Eugénie begins to suffer from recurring illnesses. Dodin then decides to cook for the one he loves more than anything in the world.
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Sublimation of the senses
Adapted from the novel “The Life and Passion of Dodin-Bouffant Gourmet” by the Swiss Marcel Rouff published in 1924, who imagined a master of French gastronomy, “The Passion of Dodin Bouffant” immediately seduces with the quiet sensuality of its setting on stage. Trần Anh Hùng (“The Smell of Green Papaya”) manages to make the incredible dishes in his film tactile, palpable.
“I had been looking to make a film regarding cooking for a long time and I came across Marcel Rouff’s book by chance. And the novel beautifully evokes the way people talk regarding food. It was enough of a starting point to make a film”, explains Trần Anh Hùng to RTS.
We taste with our eyes this simple and luminous story, a symphony of recipes as beautiful as poems, at the moment when the love between Eugénie and Bouffant grows closer, when the question of the transmission of knowledge to a young peasant girl with gifts arises. prodigious tastes, and that the act of cooking and eating is the most essential sharing, uniting the characters in a common memory.
Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel embody with ideal finesse and complicity this couple at the center of this enveloping work which sublimates the senses.
>> To see: the Vertigo debate around the film “The Passion of Dodin Bouffant”
Cinema debate: “The passion of Dodin Bouffant” by Tran Anh Hung / Vertigo / 6 min. / Friday at 2:57 p.m.
Chosen to represent France at the Oscars
“Food and physical love are the two sources of sensuality in our lives. It was a challenge to talk regarding the culinary art, to evoke smells and tastes that we don’t get in the cinema. And I believe that if things are shown with great vividness, our brain compensates for what is missing on the screen,” says Trần Anh Hùng.
Selected at the end of September from a list of five feature films, including “The Anatomy of a Fall”, the last Palme d’Or at Cannes, “The Passion of Dodin Bouffant” will represent France at the 2024 Oscars.
Subject and radio interview: Rafael Wolf and Pierre Philippe Cadert
Adaptation web: olhor
“The Passion of Dodin Bouffant” by Trân Anh Hùng, with Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Emmanuel Salinger. To be seen currently on French-speaking screens.
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