French cuisine competes on big screen at Cannes in The Pot-au-Feu Entertainment News
Reuters
May 25, 2023
The 76th Cannes Film Festival - Screening of the film "La passion de Dodin Bouffant" (The Pot-au-Feu) in competition - Red Carpet Arrivals - Cannes, France, on May 24, 2023. Lena Mahfouf poses.
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CANNES - Stomachs were sure to grumble at the Cannes Film Festival premiere of The Pot-au-Feu on Wednesday (May 24), which brings Michelin star chef Pierre Gagnaire's culinary talents to the big screen.
The stars of the film, French film icon Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel, two-time winner of France's Cesar award for best actor, were on the red carpet in the French Riviera city along with Gagnaire and French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung.
The French-language film, set in 1885, follows gourmet Dodin Bouffant (Magimel), a fictional character created by novelist Marcel Rouff, during a budding romance between him and his longtime cook Eugenie (Binoche).
Binoche and Magimel were a real-life couple after they met on the set of another movie they did together, 1999's Children of the Century, and had a daughter before separating in 2003.
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