The Taste of Others
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| Directed by | Agnès Jaoui |
| Produced by |
Christian Bérard Charles Gassot Jacques Hinstin |
| Written by | Agnès Jaoui Jean-Pierre Bacri |
| Starring |
Anne Alvaro Jean-Pierre Bacri Alain Chabat Agnès Jaoui Gérard Lanvin Christiane Millet Wladimir Yordanoff |
| Music by | Jean-Charles Jarrel |
| Cinematography | Laurent Dailland |
| Edited by | Hervé de Luze |
| Distributed by | Pathé |
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112 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | €9 million |
| Box office | $23.1 million |
The Taste of Others (French: Le Goût des autres; [ləɡu deˈzotʁ]) is a 2000 French film. It was directed by Agnès Jaoui, and written by her and Jean-Pierre Bacri. It stars Jean-Pierre Bacri, Anne Alvaro, Alain Chabat, Agnès Jaoui, Gérard Lanvin and Christiane Millet.
It won the César Award for Best Film, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Writing in 2001, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Castella (Bacri) owns a steel factory. He is told that in order to conduct a business with a group of Iranians, he must learn English, so he hires Clara (Alvaro) to teach him. His wife, Angelique (Millet), is an interior decorator who loves her dog and is in the process of working on her sister-in-law's apartment. The couple go to the theatre, where their niece is performing in a production of Bérénice, accompanied by the driver, Bruno (Chabat), and Castella's temporary bodyguard, Franck (Lanvin). While there, he sees Clara, who is an actress. Meanwhile, we learn from Franck and Bruno's conversation that the former was a police officer. After working tirelessly with his partner towards bringing down a seemingly untouchable criminal, their investigation was abruptly ended. Franck had finally suffered enough corruption and quit the force, while the partner he respected never spoke a word about it.
Franck sends Bruno to the bar to buy cigarettes. The barmaid, Manie (Jaoui), remembers having had sex with Bruno, but Bruno regrets that he does not remember her.
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