The Taste of Others (2000)
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100% of critics liked it
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79% of users liked it
(5,343 ratings)
Agnes Jaoui co-writes and directs this romantic comedy of manners set in France's rustic Provence. Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella (co-scripter Jean-Pierre Bacri) reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit… More Agnes Jaoui co-writes and directs this romantic comedy of manners set in France's rustic Provence. Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella (co-scripter Jean-Pierre Bacri) reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux (Anne Alvaro). During the course of the show, Castella soon remembers that he once hired and then promptly fired the actress as an English language tutor. He immediately goes out and signs up for language lessons. Thinking that he is nothing but an ill-tempered philistine with bad taste, Clara rejects him until Castella charms her off her feet. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi
- Directed By
- Agnès Jaoui
- Written By
- Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnès Jaoui
- Genres
- Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
R,
- In Theaters
- Jan 1, 2000 Wide
- Studio
- Artistic License Films
Critic Reviews
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Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Succeeds with believable characters and situations born of lives well studied.
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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
The movie's unique appeal lies less in the style than the substance -- particularly, in the emerging hero at the centre of the tale.
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Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News
Slyly written, the intelligent social satire is surely acted and ... confidently, ably directed.
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Eve Zibart, Washington Post
There are some things the French do better than we do, and the small movie is one.
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Rita Kempley, Washington Post
A worldly-wise, compassionate and charmingly acted Gallic comedy.
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Cast
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Jean-Pierre Bacri
as Jean-Jacques Castella
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Anne Alvaro
as Clara Devaux
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Agnès Jaoui
as Manie
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Gérard Lanvin
as Moreno
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Alain Chabat
as Deschamps
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Brigitte Catillon
as Beatrice
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Christiane Millet
as Angelique
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Vladimir Yordanoff
as Antoine
- Sam Karmann
