From Jeanne Dielman to The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. Ahead of the release of the French gourmand romance The Taste of Things, we prepare 10 starters.
A 19-year-old actress named Hafsia Herzi steps into the cinema in this film. I have a feeling it will be, like the first film of Isabelle Huppert, not simply a debut, but an announcement: Here I am, and I am the real thing. She is the energy at the heart of a life-filled portrait of a big family of first-generation immigrants in a shabby French port city, a family that nourishes love, jealousy, discouragement, ambition, and a whole lot of dining and talking.