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A Matter of Taste(Une affaire de goût)

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France · 2000
1h 30m
Director Bernard Rapp
Starring Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Lorit, Charles Berling, Florence Thomassin
Genre Drama

Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence and strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by Nicolas' charm. Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a close friendship begins to emerge between the two men. However, their bond of trust and admiration soon spirals downward into a dangerous game of deceit and obsession for which neither is prepared.

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75

Boston Globe by

A Matter of Taste, French director Bernard Rapp's polished second film, swims in lies, ones that sate at first, but soon intoxicate, seduce, and drown.

100

San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann

The writing, by Rapp and Catherine Dussart, is exquisite, and the performers, including Francois Truffaut's old colleague Jean-Pierre Leaud as a magistrate, are all first-rate.

63

New York Post by Lou Lumenick

There are also food scenes that will whet your appetite. But somehow a satisfying climax never makes it out of the oven.

60

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

This psychological thriller takes its time and never delivers the big shocks genre fans raised on its American cousins have come to expect. But it works up a chilly atmosphere of creeping dread, and the tension.

50

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

A Matter of Taste's largest handicap is restraint: It's too tasteful. The climactic crisis is a broken leg, and the off-screen denouement is unimaginative.

80

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

This deliciously nasty French deconstruction of male pecking orders, directed by Bernard Rapp, should send a pleasant shiver down the spine of anyone who has ever obsessed about wanting to please a devious and manipulative boss.

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