Haute Cuisine (2013)
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Reviews Counted: 30
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 10
While it'll certainly be an easier sell for foodie filmgoers, Haute Cuisine's beautifully filmed biopic should satisfy most viewers hungry for a beautifully filmed dramedy.
Average Rating: 5.7/10
Critic Reviews: 12
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 5
While it'll certainly be an easier sell for foodie filmgoers, Haute Cuisine's beautifully filmed biopic should satisfy most viewers hungry for a beautifully filmed dramedy.
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Hortense Laborie (Catherine Frot), a renowned chef from Perigord, is astonished when the President of the Republic (Jean d'Ormesson) appoints her his personal cook, responsible for creating all his meals at the Elysée Palace. Despite jealous resentment from the other kitchen staff, Hortense quickly establishes herself, thanks to her indomitable spirit. The authenticity of her cooking soon seduces the President, but the corridors of power are littered with traps... -- (C) Weinstein
Cast
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Catherine Frot
Hortense Laborie -
Jean d'Ormesson
The President -
Hippolyte Girardot
David Azoulay -
Arthur Dupont
Nicolas Bauvois -
Brice Fournier
Pascal Lepiq -
Jean-Marc Roulot
Jean-Marc Luchet -
Arly Jover
Mary -
Joe Sheridan
John -
Philippe Uchan
Coche-Dury -
Laurent Poitrenaux
Jean-Michel Salomé -
Herve Pierre
Perrières -
Louis-Emmanuel Blanc
Arnaud Fremier -
David Houri
David Epenot -
Nicolas Chupin
Anthony
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All Critics (30) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (20) | Rotten (10)
With a title like Haute Cuisine, one can expect a high degree of gastronomic titillation. On that score, the film delivers.
Top Critic"Haute Cuisine" has no grand conflict or important message or really anything much that you'll remember past dinnertime, but it has abundant charm and it leaves you hungry, which is all we ask of a food movie.
Haute Cuisine is an epicurean dream where the dishes conjured up by the characters are as essential to the experience as the characters themselves.
A pleasant dramedy inspired by a true story.
"Haute Cuisine" is a bonbon, not of a full-course meal.
If you love France and food, separately or in combination, you will almost certainly forgive Christian Vincent's workmanlike direction, the tedious score, and the near-total absence of dramatic conflict.
Unlike Hortense's flavorful cooking, Haute Cuisine is aggressively bland. It's the type of French film that you'd recommend to people who think they don't like French films for being arty.
A small pleasure, especially for those of us who love our "food movies."
A marvelous performance by Catherine Frot as Le President's private cook.
A feature-length cooking show with some biographical details thrown in for good measure.
This movie keeps up a vigorous pace and carries you along on the force of its self-confidence.
Narrowness of focus keeps the movie from becoming bloated with self-importance, but it also leaves it feeling a little inconsequential-more of a pleasing snack than a satisfying meal.
Delicious in every way: a must for foodies, but also for anyone who wants to see beautiful work done on the screen, presented in the most prideful way.
Vincent seems to have consciously designed Haute Cuisine as a small movie...But that simplicity is a winning choice.
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Foreign Titles
- Die Köchin und der Präsident (DE)
- Haute Cuisine (Les saveurs du Palais) (UK)
