Watch: Comme un chef 2012 123movies, Full Movie Online – Jacky Bonnot is 32 years old and a lover of haute cuisine. He is undeniably talented and he dreams of success managing a great restaurant, but he and his wife’s financial situation obliges him to accept odd jobs that he is not passionate about and thus, never able to keep. One day he runs into his idol, Alexandre Lagarde, a famous multi-star chef whose comfortable situation is threatened by the holding group that owns his restaurants..
Plot: A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group’s new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.
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not exactly three stars
Did I already say that I love cooking and films about cooking? I probably did. For food lovers talking, reading, watching TV shows and – why not – seeing movies about food and the people behind food just amplifies the pleasure of enjoying good food and enriches the experience. We have been blessed with a few good movies on this topic, some older (who can forget Louis de Funes in L’Aille et la cuisse?) some recently like the American Chef with an almost identical title as the French comedy Le Chef.We may of course expect a lot from a French film about ‘haute cuisine’ – the subject should be part of the national expertise after all. Director and script co-writer Daniel Cohen has taken the easy path with this lighthearted comedy about a famous chef (Jean Reno) who is obsessed with keeping his three Michelin stars intact and an unemployed aspirant (Michael Youn) trying to find his way in the world of high-end cooking. Everybody has a good time and especially Reno who abandons for a short while his tough guy mask and lets us know that he owns a carefully suppressed comic talent.
There is some serious background behind the light comedy which should not be omitted. Great chefs nowadays need to fight increased competition from street food and from the modern trends like ‘molecular food’ (which incidentally I hate as much as the folks who wrote the script of this film). Fighting kitsch or pretentious avant-garde artistic challenge that is not encountered only by artists in cooking but by many other fields. So are the crisis of creativity, the loss of inspiration, the need to change and do something else in certain turning points of lives and careers. None of these subjects are absent but none is explored to deeply either in ‘Le Chef’. The result in culinary terms is a ‘souffle’ – light and pleasant when eaten but not leaving persistent memories after the consumption. I mentioned the American movie ‘Chef’ which also dealt with a famous cook in some crisis in his life and career turning to street food. Well, the food in the American ‘Chef’ may not have been as classy as the food in the French ‘Le Chef’ but the film that resulted was better.
Very amusing and well directed movie
Have been a fan of Reno since my first movie i saw was Les Visiteurs years ago. In this movie he is not only amusing you have a love/hate relationship with him. Rarely does a whole movie theater laugh for minutes at simple situations very well acted and directed.Reno as a Chef really convinces, and the restaurant scenes, the cars he uses, the kitchen all very well presented. Want to have fun, go see the Chef. You wont regret one minute. There is a young French. Actress that plays the role of the pregnant wife Raphaelle Agogue who is not only very pretty I think she has an important future in French movies. Mr. Yaoun also plays a commendable part as the apprentice Chef. There is a French movie festival fortunately in Caracas And movies like The Chef helps make life here more bearable,without going into details.
Original Language fr
Runtime 1 hr 24 min (84 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 306724
Status Released
Rated PG-13
Genre Comedy, Drama
Director Daniel Cohen
Writer Daniel Cohen, Olivier Dazat
Actors Jean Reno, Michaël Youn, Raphaëlle Agogué
Country France, Spain
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Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa Plus
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Printed Film Format Digital (Digital Cinema Package DCP)