Fresh
Succeeds with believable characters and situations born of lives well studied.
Peter Howell, Toronto Star
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The Taste of Others
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Agnès Jaoui Director
- Agnès Jaoui as Manie
- Jean-Pierre Bacri as Jean-Charles Castella
- Anne Alvaro as Clara Devaux
- Alain Chabat as Bruno Deschamps
- Gérard Lanvin as Franck Moreno
- Christiane Millet as Angélique
- Wladimir Yordanoff as Antoine
- Brigitte Catillon as Béatrice Castella
- Raphaël Defour as Benoît
- Anne Le Ny as Valérie
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
98%
Tomatometer
Fresh
The movie's unique appeal lies less in the style than the substance -- particularly, in the emerging hero at the centre of the tale.
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
Fresh
Slyly written, the intelligent social satire is surely acted and ... confidently, ably directed.
Jane Sumner, Dallas Morning News
Fresh
There are some things the French do better than we do, and the small movie is one.
Eve Zibart, Washington Post
Fresh
A worldly-wise, compassionate and charmingly acted Gallic comedy.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
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