Haute Cuisine

Name: Haute Cuisine
Genre: Biography, Comedy
Released: September 20, 2013
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 61

2013

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Weinstein Company, The | Release Date: September 20, 2013 | PG-13

Summary: Hortense is a small town chef and restaurant-owner whose life changes when she becomes the personal chef to the President of France.

Director: Christian Vincent

Genre(s): Biography, Comedy

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 95 min

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Chuck Wilson

Sep 17, 2013

Writer-director Christian Vincent and co-writer Étienne Comar, aided by Frot's quiet intensity, imbue Hortense's quest to pull off culinary miracles with an urgency that's almost absurdly compelling, and all the more entertaining for it. Read full review

Tasha Robinson

Sep 18, 2013

A warm and enjoyable small-scale film. Read full review

John Anderson

Sep 19, 2013

"Witty and brisk" is not the name of a French breakfast cereal, but it does describe a certain brand of French film, the type that coquettishly flirts with comedy while sprinting in the direction of dry, sophisticated charm. Such is Haute Cuisine. Read full review

A.A. Dowd

Sep 20, 2013

Narrowness of focus keeps the movie from becoming bloated with self-importance, but it also leaves it feeling a little inconsequential. Read full review

Stephanie Merry

Sep 27, 2013

Haute Cuisine provides no huge revelations or profound messages, but it is sweetly and consistently engaging — a tasty treat that’s not entirely filling but perfectly enjoyable all the same. Read full review

Walter Addiego

Sep 26, 2013

A bonbon, not of a full-course meal. Foodies will smack their lips over many delectable shots of victuals prepared by the film's engaging protagonist, a provincial woman chosen to cook for the president of France. As a story, though, it's insubstantial - there's conflict here, but it feels perfunctory. Read full review

Chris Cabin

Apr 26, 2013

Offers all the ingredients for a great feast of enticing visions and thematic concerns, only to have them be prepared, plated, and served with the grace of Elmer Fudd. Read full review

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whitewind

Oct 5, 2013

Haute Cuisine is a charming, excellently paced, and well written film. Foodies and especially those who admire French cuisine will get a great deal out of this film. But even those not particularly atuned to fine French cooking will enjoy this film about a female chef hired by the FrenchHaute Cuisine is a charming, excellently paced, and well written film. Foodies and especially those who admire French cuisine will get a great deal out of this film. But even those not particularly atuned to fine French cooking will enjoy this film about a female chef hired by the French President for his private kitchen, and her adventures with the male cooks and chefs of the main kitchen. But this is handled in a very sophisticated manner, without temper tantrums and underhanded activities between the parties.… Expand

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