The Tasting: what is this romantic comedy to consume without moderation?


The romantic comedy “La Dégustation”, led by Bernard Campan and Isabelle Carré, is released this Wednesday in our theaters. Focus on a film that feels good.

WHAT IS IT ABOUT ?

Divorced from the gruff type, Jacques alone runs a small wine cellar, on the verge of bankruptcy. Hortense, involved in the association and determined not to end up an old maid, enters her shop one day and decides to sign up for a tasting workshop…

Twenty years after Remembering beautiful things, the duo composed of Bernard Campan and Isabelle Carré finds itself on the big screen for the delicious romantic comedy La Dégustation. The actors here resume the roles they played in the play of the same name by Ivan Calbérac. Created in 2019 at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris, the latter won the Molière for Best Comedy.

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La Dégustation is directed by Ivan Calbérac himself, who is adapting one of his plays for the cinema for the third time after L’Etudiante and Monsieur Henri and Venice is not in Italy.

UOne day, just after our four nominations for the Molières, Isabelle and Bernard asked me to have lunch together and said to me: “And if we made a film of it?”. How can you resist two actors who are so persuasive and so motivated? The desire had obviously crossed my mind, but it was really them who verbalized it first”recalls the filmmaker.

For La Dégustation, Calbérac cites Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri as references, who navigated, like him, between theater and cinema. “They are a great inspiration to me. Cooking and Addictions, A Family Likeness, The Taste of Others… these films are and will always be present in me”he confides. “I also really appreciate what Pierre Salvadori does. Hors de prix, for example, remains for me a wonderful reference of French romantic comedy.”


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Funny and moving, La Dégustation is a feature film rich in humanity that makes you want to live and get drunk on the little pleasures of everyday life. A romantic comedy to be savored like a good vintage, which Calbérac wished to anchor in today’s reality.

The director thus evokes themes such as poverty via the homeless, the fate of young people born under X who live in homes or the difficult path of women who want to have a child alone.

“This does not prevent me from remaining an author of comedies, one of the engines of which is to transmit a form of optimism”, says the filmmaker. “My feeling is that in theater and cinema, if people may need to be confronted with the mirror of their time, they also sometimes thirst to find a little hope in a scary world.

The Tasting hits theaters this Wednesday.



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