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Š-DR-LES DERNIERS JOURS DU MONDE de A.& J-M Larrieu (2009)

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Les Derniers Jours du monde est un film de science-fiction français réalisé par les frères Larrieu, d'après le roman de Dominique Noguez.

Résumé
Alors que s'annonce la fin du monde, Robinson Laborde se remet peu à peu de l'échec d'une aventure sentimentale pour laquelle il s'était décidé à quitter sa femme. Malgré l'imminence du désastre, et peut-être pour mieux y faire face, il s’élance dans une véritable odyssée amoureuse qui l’entraîne sur les routes de France et d’Espagne.

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-The film is loosely based on "Mes carnets de cuisine. Du Périgord à l'Elysée", the memories of Danièle Delpeuch, the first and only female chef having worked for the French President at the Palais de l'Elysée

  
-Claude Rich was considered for the role of the President.

-First movie role of famous French writer Jean d'Ormesson at age 86.

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17/03/2014 06:03 par tellurikwaves

Catherine Frot is a Magical Screen Presence
7/10
Author: gregorybnyc from United States
25 February 2014

I've only seen Catherine Frot in one other movie--Coline Serreau's stunningly complicated CHAOS and she was marvelous. So when HAUTE CUISINE showed up on Netflix, I jumped at it. I love movies about food--WHO IS KILLING THE GREAT CHEFS OF EUROPE?, BIG NIGHT, MOSTLY MARTHA, EAT DRINK MAN WOMAN, BABETTE'S FEAST. They almost always manage to find humanity, absurdity and gently funny moments associated with food. Based on the real story of the first female chef who comes to cook for President Mitterand at the Elysee Palace,

HAUTE CUSINE is a sweetly earnest story of Hortense Laborie, a fine French cook who is pulled away from her truffle farm in France to become the personal chef of the French president. Along the way she will encounter the petty and mean-spirited competition from the all-male kitchen that serves the palace, as she works tirelessly to provide the President with the foods he remembers from his childhood. The story is told in flashbacks as Hortense s finishing up a year-long stint as a cook for a research group in Anartica.

What makes the film work is the casting of Catherine Frot as Hortense. This superb actress gives Hortense a tense, focused and convincing believability. Horrtense arouses total loyalty from her sous chef and maitre'd as the palace personalities around her make life often rather difficult. Losing her calm only once, Frot has a confrontation in the movie that is a very satisfying answer to the pettiness she is surrounded by at the Palace. It is in stark contrast to the grateful affection she is shown by the men she cooks for every day in coldly forbidding Antartica.

HAUTE CUISINE is a quiet film of disarming charm. It doesn't break new ground, but it is a very satisfying movie which Catherine Frot at its center. Some have complained here that is a trifle and I'm not entirely disagreeing, but it is a movie worth seeing. I know I'll be seeing it again.

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17/03/2014 06:00 par tellurikwaves

Kitchen Cabinet
8/10
Author: writers_reign from London, England
28 October 2013

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

Catherine Frot has a new film out. Really that's all I need to know. Who cares if it's ultimately unsatisfying, it's a great all-round actress wearing her comedy hat, what more do you want. There's a nice in-joke that may well be lost on UK and USA viewers; the role of the President (Mitterand in all but name, the film is based on a book by Daniele Depeuch, who really was summoned to the Elysee Palace by Mitterand to be his personal chef) is played by Jean D'Ormesson, a journalist, not an actor who was, in real life, Mitterand's bete noir.

Little more than a series of vignettes the film covers the two years that the chef from Perignord spent in the Elysee Palace, the backs she put up and the friends that she made. There is, for example, a recurring battle between chef and the treasurer who can't understand why the ingredients she needs for the provincial dishes favored by the president can't be sourced in local Paris markets and need to be shipped in. Bottom line? Catherine Frot has a new film out. Hooray!

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17/03/2014 05:58 par tellurikwaves

Hits the spot – mostly – but this is good, rather than special. Don't go into the cinema hungry!
6/10
Author: shawneofthedead from http://shawneofthedead.wordpress.com/
28 December 2013

Have you ever caught yourself planning where to have dinner… even while you're eating lunch? Singapore, as all who live here know very well, is a nation obsessed with good food. As far as humanly possible, many of us live to eat, rather than eat to live. So it's easy to see how a treat like Haute Cuisine – a thoroughly French film that greatly reveres the art and mastery of cooking – might hit the spot with local audiences.

No-nonsense, straight-talking Hortense Laborie (Catherine Frot) – inspired by the real-life Danièle Mazet-Delpeuch – runs her own truffle farm in the French countryside. One day, she's rushed down to Paris to meet a potential employer: the President of France (Jean d'Ormesson), who's modelled after François Mitterrand. With the help of her sous-chef Nicolas (Arthur Dupont), Hortense prepares culinary feasts for a man who hankers after the down-to-earth home cooking of his childhood, even as she's forced to deal with politics and jealousy in the kitchens and corridors of the Élysée Palace.

As a main course, Haute Cuisine serves up much for discerning movie- goers to savour. Hortense emerges as a formidable presence, her strength of character shining through her battles with the unwelcoming men in charge of the Palace's main kitchen. (Mazet-Delpeuch was the first female chef to serve in the Palace.) Her conspiratorial friendships with Nicolas and Jean-Marc Luchet (Jean-Marc Roulot), the President's maître d, are charmingly developed and effectively juxtaposed with her year-long sojourn in Antarctica spent cooking for a very different set of consumers. The film is beautifully shot, making good use of its access to the Palace grounds and lingering lovingly over Hortense's culinary masterpieces.

Just don't expect to have your mind blown or your tastebuds completely tantalised. This is a competent, solidly-made film, but it trades a sense of dramatic urgency for its more gastronomic delights. Hortense's creations will have you salivating in your seat, rich and clearly delicious. Her few face-to-face meetings with the President, however, are sweet and understated rather than the stuff of history. Ultimately, Haute Cuisine is the cinematic equivalent of a good, solid meal – satisfying but not necessarily something to shout from the roof-tops about.

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17/03/2014 05:54 par tellurikwaves

The highest at the highest's
5/10
Author: stensson from Stockholm, Sweden
25 July 2013

Being the president's chef at the Elysée Palace is of course an honour which compares to nothing else. No woman has been worthy of the title before. Not until now.

No surprise she gets difficulties from male colleagues. No matter she retaliates by the most complicated receipts, although the president says he longs for simple food from his childhood. It's almost parodic and makes you long for something from the fridge.

A rather common against-all-odds flick. You know what will happen and it happens. And you will think twice before you enter a good French restaurant again. You're not worthy