A Matter of Taste

Name: A Matter of Taste
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: September 7, 2001
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 74
Cast: Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Lorit

2001

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Attitude Films | Release Date: September 7, 2001

Starring: Bernard Giraudeau, Jean-Pierre Lorit

Summary: Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence and strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by Nicolas' charm. Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a closeNicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence and strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by Nicolas' charm. Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a close friendship begins to emerge between the two men. However, their bond of trust and admiration soon spirals downward into a dangerous game of deceit and obsession for which neither is prepared. (Attitude Films)… Expand

Director: Bernard Rapp

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Runtime: 90 min

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Edward Guthmann

The writing, by Rapp and Catherine Dussart, is exquisite, and the performers, including Francois Truffaut's old colleague Jean-Pierre Leaud as a magistrate, are all first-rate. Read full review

Kenneth Turan

An elegant study of devious mind games and emotional perversion, it makes the strangest of psychological dynamics plausible and involving. Read full review

Sean Axmaker

Deliciously dark tale of insidious seduction. Read full review

Leighton Klein

A Matter of Taste, French director Bernard Rapp's polished second film, swims in lies, ones that sate at first, but soon intoxicate, seduce, and drown.

Elizabeth Weitzman

A neat little almost-thriller, this witty French diversion manages to mess with your head with little apparent effort.

New Times (L.A.) Jean Oppenheimer

The two lead performances are so good it contains more emotional depth than it probably has a right to. Read full review

Michael Atkinson

A Matter of Taste's largest handicap is restraint: It's too tasteful. The climactic crisis is a broken leg, and the off-screen denouement is unimaginative. Read full review

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