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The Taste of Others(Le Goût des autres)

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France · 2000
Rated R · 1h 52m
Director Agnès Jaoui
Starring Jean-Pierre Bacri, Alain Chabat, Anne Alvaro, Agnès Jaoui
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance

In this comedy of manners set in France's rustic Provence, unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice," but ends up struck by the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady, Clara. Remembering that he fired her as his English language tutor, he immediately signs up again, determined to charm Clara off her feet.

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90

Washington Post by

There are some things the French do better than we do, and this small movie is one.

80

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

It's the dialogue -- wisecracking and wistful in equal measure -- that plays out the tyrannical illogic of romantic attraction, and so endears us to this ensemble of bruised souls that when, as in life, not everyone gets what they have come to deserve, it feels, as in life, like an injustice.

90

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

All of this romantic back and forth unfolds gradually and in charming ensemble style. As the characters think about seducing each other, as they inevitably complicate their lives without being able to help themselves, the film is simultaneously seducing us.

91

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

Jaoui handles her crowd of vivid characters so naturally, and shoots her scenes so unobtrusively, that the diagrammatic cleverness of the plot never overwhelms the intelligence of the observations.

75

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

A tad slow by American standards, but so extremely well-acted and emotionally truthful, it's right up there with "In the Mood for Love" as prime romantic fare for the Valentine's Day weekend.

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