The Taste of Others

2000 ""

The Taste of Others

7.2 | 1h52m | en | Drama

Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella 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. 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.

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7.2 | 1h52m | en | Drama , Comedy , Romance | More Info

Released: March. 01,2000 | Released Producted By: France 2 Cinéma , Canal+ Country: France Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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Cast

Jean-Pierre Bacri , Alain Chabat , Anne Alvaro

Director

Anne Passelergue

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France 2 Cinéma , Canal+

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Cast

Jean-Pierre Bacri

as Jean-Charles Castella

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Alain Chabat

as Bruno Deschamps

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Anne Alvaro

as Clara Devaux

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Reviews

brownjeff I speak French and lived in Rouen (where the movie was filmed) for a year. I watch French films almost to the exclusion of other genres. I figure one needs to watch about 10 French films to find at least one of value. This is not the one. I have never ended a film before it was over but pulled this one out of the DVD player after about 45 minutes. The characters were perhaps a bit more believable than the ones in "La Potiche" but not by much. The situations weren't much more believable than the characters and the film in general is depressing and slow. I avoid action/3-D films and generally search out films of a more mundane and life-like quality but couldn't find those qualities in this picture. I even survived watching "La moustache" the whole way through but couldn't take this one. Ugghhh...

noralee When Hollywood re-makes "The Taste of Others (Le Gout des Autres)" it will just manage to change everything in this delightful Woody Allen meets Eric Rohmer ensemble piece that it will be awful.Here you have chaos theory at work as tiny coincidences of gradually revealed links between people whose lives wouldn't usually intersect (from an ex-cop to artists to a business executive) set off dramatic changes (or consideration of changes) in their lives. Such that something one contact says to another is then taken out of context to cause communication problems when it's passed on to another.A lot of the triumph has to do with director/co-writer Agnes Jaoui's penchant for long shots and her trust in the actors (but then she and her husband--who also co-wrote the script--are also co-stars, though not an on-screen couple). For example, two casual lovers meet up in a restaurant, and the guy introduces her to his co-worker. That sparks fly between the new pair is communicated without close-up leers or touching and with bare conversation. The woe-be-gone boss drags two employees to a strip joint for distraction, and that each guy is at a different stage in his romantic travails is reflected in each's face and body language-- and we never even see the strippers, something Hollywood can never resist showing. We root for the unexpected couples as well as their self-understanding, and they make unexpected yet believable choices. The naturalness of their interactions is laugh-out-loud funny in a knowing way, and breath-catchingly poignant.Those of you intellectuals who are already familiar with "Hedda Gabler" won't be sandbagged by one scene as I was.It deservedly won a slew of French Cesars.(originally written 3/3/2001)

moosegirl This was such a good movie. A wonderful investigation of the way our opinions about others are often influenced by their tastes. The main character, Castella, is so wonderfully out of touch with "culture", but his slow transformation through the film left me rooting for him and anything that he wanted to experience, sometimes aloud. Highly recommended for those who love character-driven movies.

toyze I've seen this one and the Marie Poulain in the same week and clearly i prefer Le gout des autres because it's simple, very pure but it makes a point and make us think about the 2 clashing worlds that meets in this film.It's not everyday that someone makes a a film that is so simple but tells a great story