The Taste of Others
2000 film directed by Agnès Jaoui
The Taste of Others (French: Le Goût des autres [lə ɡu dez‿otʁ]) 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 Original Screenplay or Adaptation in 2001, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Plot
Castella (Bacri) owns a steel factory. He is told that in order to conduct 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 goes 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.
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