Director : Lasse Hallström Writers: Joanne Harris (novel) Country: UK/US (Film is set in France) Food Consultant: Walter Bienz (chocolate expert) Film Rating: 8/10 Foodie Rating: 8/10 Cocoa-based joy lies at the heart of Lasse Hallström’s romantic drama set in 1950’s France. First a word of warning. Note the lack of ‘e’ in the title….
Writer/Director: Gurinder Chadha Country: US/UK Cuisine: Multiple Film Rating: 7/10 Foodie Rating: 8/10 Gurinder Chadha is fond of depicting meals in her films, to the extent that many of them feature food in the titles. From her early feature Bhaji on the Beach (1993) and as a writer with The Mistress of Spices (2005), food…
Babette’s Feast , a film from 1986 demonstrates that a soupçon of decadence and indulgence even a little gluttony, does you good
God of Cookery Director: Stephen Chow Sing Chi (周星馳) Country: Hong Kong Cuisine: Chinese / Cantonese Film Rating 6/10Foodie Rating 5/10 The world of food is tough in more ways than one. The bourgeois rich insist on the distinctive, the unique and the best and are willing to pay for it, whilst the poor survive…
Writer/Director:Ang Lee Country: Taiwan Cuisine: Chinese Film Rating 9/10 Foodie Rating 10/10 The only problem with this foodophile classic is its title: it should be Eat Drink Man Women as the relationships centre on protagonist Chu (Sihung Lung), his three daughters as well as his friend, her mother and her daughter. Chu is a former…
