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The Pot-au-Feu

Horizons 2023 / La passion de Dodin Bouffant / France 2023

The Pot-au-Feu The Pot-au-Feu

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 film

134 min / Color, DCP

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.

About the director

Tran Anh Hung

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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CinemArt, a.s.
Národní 60/28, 111 21, Praha 1
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 224 949 110
E-mail: [email protected]

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