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The Taste of Others

2000 · 112 min

A gentle, witty ensemble piece about mismatched people fumbling toward connection, with a warm, bittersweet tone and sharp observations of class and taste.

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.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • class
  • love
  • identity
  • betrayal
  • ambition
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism8
Romance6
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama, comedy, romance
Directed by
Agnès Jaoui
Written by
Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri
Starring
Agnès Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Anne Alvaro, Alain Chabat, Gérard Lanvin, Christiane Millet, Wladimir Yordanoff, Brigitte Catillon
Music
Jean-Charles Jarrel
Cinematography
Laurent Dailland
Runtime
112 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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