Movie

The Chef's Wife

2014 · 90 min

A gentle, wry French comedy-drama about two women's tangled lives, with quiet emotional depth and subtle humour.

Overview: The wife of a successful chef feels unfulfilled in her rôle as dining-room hostess and consults career counselor, who is herself dissatisfied by her useful but mundane place in the scheme of things. Without meaning to, the two women find their lives growing tangled together, with ever more complex tragicomic consequences.
How it feels: Warm, melancholic, satirical and romantic. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Identity, love, friendship, work
Content: Mild sexual content and language. No violence or gore.
Note: Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

Your rating is saved. See your suggestions, or find titles like this one below.

Rate it, and Mesmero finds titles that feel like it. You do not need an account.

Add to a list: The Chef's Wife

Stream in the US

More options Data from JustWatch

In your watch list

More like this

Like The Chef's Wife, but

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown

Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
love
friendship
work
betrayal
Places: big city
workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild