"Le goût des autres", or "The Taste of Others" is a French movie and therefor already not so accessible to many of you. Personally I'm used to subtitles (over here we only get to see the movies in the original version, so always with subtitles), but I know that many of you aren't. But no problem, because I guess this is a movie that will only be seen by people that like European movies anyway. Don't expect any Hollywoodian action scenes or big explosions. This is a movie about love, appreciating each others opinions,...
This movie has been built around six characters. Three men and three women who have completely different tastes and opinions are brought together by circumstance. Castella is the owner of a trucking company who is married to a jobless interior decorator (only because her taste is awful). When his wife takes him to a play, he sees Clara, a forty-year-old actress, who isn't all too successful in her career. He immediately falls in love with her and tries to find ways to be with her as much as possible. Bruno is Castella's driver and Franck is his temporary bodyguard while he negotiates a contract with Iranians. Trough Bruno, Franck meets Manie, a barmaid who deals hash. They begin an affair...
In my opinion this movie lacked something, although I'm not really able to describe what it was. It just never grabbed me by the throat and pulled me completely into its story. Perhaps I'm a bit too young for this movie (I'm in my late twenties) and therefor maybe not really able to fully understand the world in which these people live (midlife crisis, so many uncertainties at an age that you can't deal with them anymore...). I don't know what it was, it just didn't completely work for me.
It's not that I don't like non-American movies, because I certainly do. A large part of the movies that I've seen are European and a few come from Asia and South-America. If I would make a "favorite movies-list", you might be surprised of how many 'foreign' movies can be found in it. I love the Italian, Scandinavian and Spanish movies most, but I also enjoyed several Belgian (let me be a bit of a good patriot for once), German and French movies, but I'm afraid this one will not be a part of that list.
Anyway, as this movie teaches us: everybody is entitled to have his own opinion. It's not because I didn't like it, that you shouldn't enjoy it. I give it a 5.5/10, but I could understand it when you say you liked it.
This movie has been built around six characters. Three men and three women who have completely different tastes and opinions are brought together by circumstance. Castella is the owner of a trucking company who is married to a jobless interior decorator (only because her taste is awful). When his wife takes him to a play, he sees Clara, a forty-year-old actress, who isn't all too successful in her career. He immediately falls in love with her and tries to find ways to be with her as much as possible. Bruno is Castella's driver and Franck is his temporary bodyguard while he negotiates a contract with Iranians. Trough Bruno, Franck meets Manie, a barmaid who deals hash. They begin an affair...
In my opinion this movie lacked something, although I'm not really able to describe what it was. It just never grabbed me by the throat and pulled me completely into its story. Perhaps I'm a bit too young for this movie (I'm in my late twenties) and therefor maybe not really able to fully understand the world in which these people live (midlife crisis, so many uncertainties at an age that you can't deal with them anymore...). I don't know what it was, it just didn't completely work for me.
It's not that I don't like non-American movies, because I certainly do. A large part of the movies that I've seen are European and a few come from Asia and South-America. If I would make a "favorite movies-list", you might be surprised of how many 'foreign' movies can be found in it. I love the Italian, Scandinavian and Spanish movies most, but I also enjoyed several Belgian (let me be a bit of a good patriot for once), German and French movies, but I'm afraid this one will not be a part of that list.
Anyway, as this movie teaches us: everybody is entitled to have his own opinion. It's not because I didn't like it, that you shouldn't enjoy it. I give it a 5.5/10, but I could understand it when you say you liked it.