On the one hand La Passion De Dodin Bouffant by Hùng Tran Anh with its triumph of delicacies and on the other the no-foodies, the anorexic teenagers of Club Zero by Jessica Hausner. Among the themes of the Cannes competition this year is nutrition. For Dodin Bouffant a famous starred chef, Pierre Gagnaire, was also involved, and everything that transpires from this portrait of the apex of French gastronomy of the mid-nineteenth century, that of dishes and sauces still cult today, of August Escoffier and his disciples, has a realistic flavor, a food porn film could be defined.
"It was an incredible training, we almost had relationships with vegetables, with meats and sauces, everything that the film shows was prepared as you see, slowly, consciously, taking care of every detail with love. My 100 percent passion French came out," says Juliette Binoche who stars as the sous chef of the Napoleon of boiled meat, pot-au-feu, Dodin Bouffant (Benoit Magimel) who has always loved her.
Oscar for Best Supporting Actress (The English Patient), she points out: "I loved playing this woman, hers is the portrait of a feminist. He maintains independence throughout his life and then as today that is the secret to a true relationship, two people are equal when they each maintain their independence and it is only there that love exists and lasts, it is the right way to relate to the other, so you share, you evolve, you love each other". The film will arrive in theaters with Lucky Red, meanwhile Juliette Binoche is Coco Chanel in the TV series in 10 episodes on the rise of Christian Dior (Ben Mendelsohn), The New Look, created by Todd A. Kessler for Apple, and is Penelope in The Return that Uberto Pasolini is shooting with Ralph Fiennes as Ulysses.