Cinema goes to dinner

Food. The very essence of life and as the adage goes, what is prevalent in life is imitated in art. Celebrated actors and directors, gourmands and gourmets alike, share their experiences of gastronomy and its portrayal in art by director Anne Andreu.

This is a veritable film lover’s feast with interviews from Claude Chabrol, Gérard Depardieu, Michel Piccoli, Jean-Claude Carrière, Wong Kar-Wai, Ang Lee, Thomas Vinterberg, Sergio Castellitto, Gabriel Axel. This program is also peppered with images from celebrated cult films such as Renoir’s La Grande Illusion, Luis Bunuel’s Le Charme discret de La Bourgeoisie, Ferreri’s La Grande Bouffe, and as well as more recent international works, such as In the mood for Love, Old Boy and Festen