‘The Taste of Things’ Cooks Up Dishes Galore, Yet Little To Bite Into

The preparation of food is so prevalent in the film that at times it feels more like an instructive tool for budding chefs de cuisine than a gently dramatic entertainment.

Via Carole Bethuel; an IFC Films release
Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel in ’The Taste of Things.' Via Carole Bethuel; an IFC Films release

A famed journalist for the New Yorker, A.J. Liebling, once wrote of France: “In the heroic age before the First World War, there were men and women who ate … a whacking lunch and a glorious dinner.” 

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