Comme un chef

The chef
Director
Daniel Cohen
Country
France, Spain
Year
2012
Genre
Fiction
Scriptwriters
Daniel Cohen / Olivier Dazat
Cast
Jean Reno/ Michaël Youn / Raphaëlle Agogue
Production
Gaumont (FR) / A Contracorriente Films (ES)
http://www.gaumont.fr

Storyline

Jacky is an amateur of haute cuisine. He is self-taught, very talented but stubborn.

Star chef Alexandre Lagarde is in serious conflict with Stanislas Matter, the new CEO of the group that owns his restaurant, Cargo Lagarde. Matter is plotting to have him lose one star in the next edition of the Guide, and therefore to replace him with a young “modern” chef who advocates a chemical, molecular cuisine which is more profitable for the food industry. Stanislas Matter begins by laying off members of Alexandre Lagarde’s team, one by one. Worse yet, Lagarde has run out of ideas for future creations for his new menu which the Guide’s critics will soon be coming to taste and judge... Alexandre is desperately looking for an assistant to help him manage the restaurant’s two daily sittings.

Then one day, as luck would have it, he meets Jacky.

Festivals & Academy awards and others

Berlin International Film Festival 2012
Culinary Cinema

Releases

Spain (7 of December 2012)
France (7 of March 2012)