LE GO�T DES AUTRES
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France
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 112 min.
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THE TASTE OF OTHERS
Castella is a no-nonsense business executive whose wife insists on conscripting him for all her society affairs. Dragged to the theatre one evening to see a play which he's sure he'll hate, Castella finds himself instead charmed by the performance of its star, Clara. What follows is the stereotypical meeting of opposites: the philistine businessman and the intellectual artist are each surprised to find something interesting in the other. And this becomes the guiding principle of the story. The businessman meets the actress who is the friend of a waitress who meets a bodyguard who works with a chauffeur who drives a decorator who happens to be the wife of the businessman. This is what happens when people who should never have met, meet. Meet and maybe even fall for each other. It's not such an acquired taste as people might imagine.
The film is an ode to curiosity, an invitation to exchange glasses with one's neighbour in order to see him differently... -- Jean-Marc Lalanne (Lib�ration)
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Script: Agn�s Jaoui, Jean-Pierre Bacri.
Phot.: Laurent Dailland.
Ed.: Herv� de Luze.
Cast: Anne Alvaro, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Brigitte Catillon, Alain Chabat, Rapha�l Defour, Xavier de Guillebon, Agn�s Jaoui, G�rard Lanvin, Anne Le Ny, Christiane Millet, Wladimir Yordanoff, Sam Karmann, Robert Bacri, Bob Zaremba.
Sales: Charles Gassot, T�l�ma / Les Films A4, 44, rue Chaptal, 92300 Levallois (France), t�l.: (33-01) 41 49 60 00, fax: (33-01) 41 49 60 49.
Sales: Path� International, 10, rue Lincoln, 75008 Paris (France), t�l.: (33-01) 40 76 91 65, fax: (33-01) 40 76 91 23.
Canadian Distributor: Les Films S�ville.
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Agn�s Jaoui
Born in 1964, Agn�s Jaoui studied theatre under Patrice Ch�reau and played in classical and modern theatre including Kleist, Chekhov and Pinter. She and fellow actor Jean-Pierre Bacri teamed up to co-author two stageplays, Cuisine et d�pendances and Un air de famille, both of which were later adapted to the screen. She wrote the screenplays for Alain Resnais' SMOKING/NO SMOKING and ON CONNA�T LA CHANSON. As an actress, she has starred in, among other films, H�TEL DE FRANCE (Patrice Ch�reau, 1987), CUISINE ET D�PENDANCES (Philippe Muyl, 1992), UN AIR DE FAMILLE (C�dric Klapisch, 1996), ON CONNA�T LA CHANSON (Alain Resnais, 1997) and LE GO�T DES AUTRES, which marks her directorial debut in features. |
