Le goût des autres (2000)

Director:

Agnès Jaoui

Writers:

Jean-Pierre Bacri (writer)
Agnès Jaoui (writer)

Release Date:

1 March 2000 (France)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

The Sexy Comedy About Good Taste... And Bad Manners!

Plot:

Three men, three women, opposites, possibilities, and tastes. Castella owns a industrial steel barrel...

Plot Keywords:

Love | English | Steel Barrel | Actress | Dog

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 14 wins & 11 nominations

Cast

Anne Alvaro	...	Clara Devaux
Jean-Pierre Bacri	...	Jean-Jacques Castella
Alain Chabat	...	Bruno Deschamps
Agnès Jaoui	...	Manie
Gérard Lanvin	...	Franck Moreno
Christiane Millet	...	Angélique
Wladimir Yordanoff	...	Antoine
Anne Le Ny	...	Valérie, l'habilleuse
Brigitte Catillon	...	Béatrice
Xavier De Guillebon	...	Weber
Raphaël Dufour	...	Benoît
Bob Zaremba	...	Fred
Sam Karmann	...	Le metteur en scène
Marie Agnès Brigot	...	La secrétaire de Castella
Robert Bacri	...	Le père de Castella

Also Known As:

The Taste of Others (Canada: English title) (USA)
It Takes All Kinds (International: English title)
I andras ögon (Finland: Swedish title) (Sweden) [sv]
De andres smag (Denmark) [da]
El gusto de los otros (Argentina) [es]
Gusta i gusciki (Poland) [pl]
Il gusto degli altri (Italy) [it]
Kukin makunsa mukaan (Finland) [fi]
Lust auf anderes (Germany) [de]
O Gosto dos Outros (Portugal) [pt]
Para todos los gustos (Spain) [es]
Peri orexeos... (Greece) [el]
Teiste maitse (Estonia) [et]

MPAA:

Rated R for language and drug content.

Runtime:

112 min

Country:

France

Language:

French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Certification:

Canada:14+ (Ontario) | South Korea:15 | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:14 | Chile:14 | Finland:S | France:U | Germany:6 (bw) | Hong Kong:IIA | Italy:T | Netherlands:AL | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:T | Sweden:Btl | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France

Company:

Canal+

Trivia:

In the final scene of the movie Bruno (Alain Chabat) plays the theme of Edith Piaf's "Je ne regrette rien"

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: (2001-03-03)" (2001)

Soundtrack:

Caressé moin

Mammon meets art in an intelligent and witty French drama

A rich but uncultured provincial businessman falls for a local actress and pushes himself into her circle of arty friends. Initially they see him as a Philistine and treat him as a joke, but their attitudes change when he becomes a potential buyer for their work. Meantime, his interior designer wife is forcing her chintzy styles onto his sister who has moved in nearby, and his bodyguard and his driver are having to deal with their own shortcomings in their amorous encounters with a local barmaid.

The interwoven sub-plots, the intelligent characterisation and the witty dialogue make this a sophisticated drama in the best sense. The film indulges neither the shallow bourgeoisie nor the supercilious bohemians, but all the characters are real and believable.

If the plot offers no easy solutions to the complex needs and insecurities of its characters, it does at least show each of them, in his or her own way, learning something significant about themselves and about other people. The two leading characters in particular come to see each other in a more accepting light, and a direction for the future is opened up.

The confidence, intelligence and humour with which director Agnes Jaoui presents these tangled lives are a pleasure to experience, and she offers a refreshing and very European alternative to the more clichéd characterisation favoured by Hollywood.