Tran Anh Hung Le Pot-au-feu de Dodin Bouffant

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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #150. Tran Anh Hung’s Le Pot-au-feu de Dodin Bouffant

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Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #150. Tran Anh Hung’s Le Pot-au-feu de Dodin Bouffant

Published on January 10, 2023

Le Pot-au-feu de Dodin Bouffant

Entering his fourth decade of filmmaking which began all the way back with the Cannes Film Festival Caméra d’Or winning The Scent of Green Papaya (1993), Tran Anh Hung‘s seventh feature is a return to the kitchen with Le Pot-au-feu de Dodin Bouffant – a period romance starring Juliette Binoche and Benoit Magimel which was shot in a French castle. Produced by Olivier Delbosc, production began in April of last year. Expect the culinary aspects of the film will be on point.

Gist: This charts the relationship between Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin, the fine gourmet she has been working for over the last 20 years. Growing fonder of one another, their bond turns into a romance and gives rise to delicious dishes that impress even the world’s most illustrious chefs. When Dodin is faced with Eugenie’s reluctance to commit to him, he decides to start cooking for her.

Release Date/Prediction: We see this in the Cannes Premiere section.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).