Mark Schilling Japan Correspondent French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung spoke about the making of “The Taste of Things” (previously titled “The Pot-au-Feu”) the food-themed romantic drama that won him best director award at Cannes this year, at the master class held Tuesday at the Tokyo International Film Festival.
Screening in TIFF’s Gala section, the film stars Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel as respectively a chef and gourmet. Set in 1885, the film depicts their relationship, which mixes romance with food, based on a 1924 novel by Marcel Rouff.
It has been selected by France as its international Oscar contender. “I had always wanted to make a film about food,” Hung told the audience. “Cooking is an art form.
I also wanted to make a film about the love between a couple in the autumn of their lives.” He said that the project had a gestation going back two decades when Binoche and Magimel were romantically linked in real life.
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