A nonetheless from ‘The Taste of Things’
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The Taste of Things has been chosen as France’s Oscar submission for Best International Feature at the 2024 Academy Awards. This comes as a shock for these following the race because it was anticipated that Justine Triet’s Anatomy of Fall could be chosen.
Anatomy of Fall was additionally anticipated to be the movie which had a good likelihood of crossing over into different Oscars classes together with lead actress contender Sandra Hüller, who, by the way, additionally stars in the U.Okay.’s International submission, The Zone of Interest. Anatomy of Fall received this yr’s Cannes Palme d’Or, the pageant at which The Taste of Things debuted.
The Taste of Things (Original title: The Pot-au-Feu ), is an adaptation of Marcel Rouffe’s 1924 novel ‘The Passionate Epicure’. Directed by Trần Anh Hùng, the movie stars Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel as two cooks who’re lovers throughout 20 years in the 19th century.
Neon, which acquired the North American distribution rights of the movie, will make a full Oscar push for it. The French committee’s shortlisted movies embrace Clement Cogitore’s Sons of Ramses, Thomas Cailley’s The Animal Kingdom, and Denis Imbert’s On The Wandering Paths. France has not been nominated at the Oscars since 2019’s Les Misérables. Interestingly, the nation made the Oscar shortlist final yr for Saint Omer.