Watch: Les saveurs du Palais 2012 123movies, Full Movie Online – Hortense Laborie is a celebrated chef living in the Perigord region. To her great surprise, the President of the Republic appoints her as his personal cook. She accepts reluctantly but once she has accepted her nomination, Hortense works her heart and soul to produce both a stylish and authentic cuisine. For a while, she manages to impose herself thanks to her sturdy character and despite the jealousies she arouses among the other chefs. For a while only, unfortunately for her and for… the President..
Plot: The story of Danièle Delpeuch and how she was appointed as the private chef for François Mitterrand.
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Charmingly underwhelming
This is not a bad film – with food prepared in such a grand setting as the Elysee Palace, we have the right ingredients for a movie of interesting visuals, but apart from this, everything else about “Haute Cuisine” is fairly lacklustre. Catherine Frot is terrific as chef Hortense but only within the context of her description and preparation of food. We learn very little about her and perhaps the chief reason being that this movie is virtually without a plot – despite initially foreboding deep conflict and resentment from other kitchen staff (entirely male), this is barely alluded to let alone shown. The flash-forwards to Hortense’s next job at an outpost in Antarctica does very little to propel either plot or characterisation. I kept waiting for this side-story to shine some relevance on either plot or character but it failed to do so. The meetings between chef and president were very few and again, little was learnt from the conversations apart from the president’s preference for simple, old-style cooking. I think viewers will be disappointed that this film promised understandable conflict of character and style and failed to deliver.Having said this, the film can still be enjoyed as an interesting expose on a style of cooking and its preparation.
Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 35 min (95 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 11384015
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Biography, Comedy
Director Christian Vincent
Writer Etienne Comar, Christian Vincent, Danièle Mazet-Delpeuch
Actors Catherine Frot, Arthur Dupont, Jean d’Ormesson
Country France
Awards 1 win & 2 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Eclair Numérique
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format DCP (Digital Cinema Package DCP)