Le Gout Des Autres [2000]

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Customer reviews

review by: Simon date: 2008-08-30 rating:
A complete bore
Compared to the other reviews here, I must be on another planet. This film is utterly tedious and a waste of time. I cannot believe it was nominated for an Oscar !

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review by: date: 2007-12-06 rating:
A gentle & astute comedy
A very simple story line and a delightful adult comedy of manners, directed with wonderful restraint & the lightest of touches. The kind of film that Hollywood could NEVER produce.

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review by: date: 2007-10-22 rating:
Not a comedy.
I buy alot of French films. I was expected a good comedy, but have to say I didn^t find it funny at all.! It is a drama. A middle aged man who^s sick to death of his wifes pink walls and flowery upholstery, who wants something new, something modern. So he falls for an actress he sees on stage, and persists on chasing her even though she makes it clear she^s not interested in him. He buys some modern art, just so he can have just one item in his home that he actualy chose himself. It^s ok, but not as good as I^d expected it to be.

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review by: date: 2006-11-05 rating:
A wonderful gem of french cinema
This is one of the best and finest films which I have recently watched. A touching story of several ordinary people, whose lives twisted by chance on some point. They strive for love and understanding, for escaping a senseless routine, for bringing new meaning in their lives. Trying to do their best, they make awkward mistakes, misunderstand each other... It is beautifully filmed and directed, with attentive, loving and forgiving look into human nature. I watched it twice, laughing and crying at the same time, and highly recommend it to everybody. It is a gem.


review by: bel_78 date: 2005-12-11 rating:
Conceptions and preconceptions, and the role they play in everyday life...
"The taste of others" is basically a story about conceptions and preconceptions, and the role they play in everyday life. The taste of the characters, when confronted with the taste of others, sometimes seems merely a pretext to judge and exclude them...

The plot is relatively simple: a prosperous industrialist, Castella (Jean-Pierre Bacri), needs to learn English, something that he really doesn't want to do. A subordinate arranges him a meeting with Clara (Anne Alvaro), an English professor that doesn't strike Castella as overly good due to the fact that she doesn't have a specific method to teach English. However, things change when he is dragged to the theatre by his wife and witnesses Clara playing the main role in "Berenice", a drama by Racine. By a strange twist of fate, Castella falls in love with Clara, and decide to take up English classes as a way to be near her. But will that be enough, when Castella is married, and Clara is so different from him?

Besides Castella, his eccentric wife Angelique (Christiane Millet) and Clara, this film includes other stories that relate to the main one but have their own dynamic. Castella's chauffeur, Bruno Deschamps (Alain Chabat), has a girlfriend that is living in another country, and about whom he talks a lot with Franck Moreno (Gerard Lanvin), Castella's bodyguard. The two men are vastly different, but both end up having an affair of sorts with Manie, (played by Agnes Jaoui, who is also the director), a bartender that happens to sell hashish.

All these characters relate to each other, and share their ideas and problems with the spectator, that cannot help but reflect on the same issues discussed in the film, even without noticing he is doing exactly that. I don't know for sure, but I think that might have been the purpose of the director, and that the stories are only the tapestry on which Jaoui weaves the ideas she wants to express.

All in all, I think that this movie is many things, but never boring. In my opinion, "The taste of others" is a very good French film that could have been excellent, if only the ending had managed to wrap up a little better the concepts discussed throughout the movie. All the same, I highly recommend it, and would see it again without hesitation :)

Belen Alcat

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