Archive of films Pot-au-Feu / La passion de Dodin Bouffant

France
2023, 134 min

Section: Horizons
Year: 2023

Synopsis

A soup is boiling in a copper pot, a firmly clenched knife is chopping green herbs, and not far away a turbot is soaking in white wine. It is 1885, and a large home in the Loire Valley is awakening to a fresh morning. Famed gourmand Dodin is overflowing with fresh culinary recipes, which his faithful cook Eugénie turns into reality. Their perfectly balanced meals testify to their mutual understanding of more than a thousand gestures, and Dodin would like for Eugénie to become his wife. But his proposal threatens her independence. This sensual homage to French gastronomy and restrained romance spiced up by the purest form of love won Best Director at Cannes.

Vojtěch Kočárník

About the director

Tran Anh Hung (1962, Danan, Vietnam). Selected filmography: The Scent of Green Papaya (Mùi du du xanh, 1993), Cyclo (Xich lo, 1995), The Vertical Ray of the Sun (Mua he chieu thang dung, 2000), Norwegian Wood (Noruwei no mori, 2010), Eternity (Eternité, 2016), The Pot-au-Feu (La passion de Dodin Bouffant, 2023).

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About the film

Color, DCP

Section:	Horizons

Director:	Tran Anh Hung
Screenplay:	Tran Anh Hung
Dir. of Photography:	Jonathan Ricquebourg
Sound:	François Waledisch, Paul Heymans, Thomas Gauder
Editor:	Mario Battistel
Art Director:	Tran Nu Yên Khê
Producer:	Olivier Delbosc
Production:	Curiosa Films
Coproduction:	Gaumont, France 2 Cinéma, Umedia
Cast:	Juliette Binoche, Benoit Magimel
Sales:	Gaumont
Distributor:	CinemArt, a.s.