Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. This evening: Grégory Gadebois invents the first restaurant during the Revolution.
After three genre feature films (Le Sourire du clown, Ca$h, 600 kilos d’or pur) and three others in homage to his loved ones (My heroes, The Taste of Wonders, The Family Spirit), the director Eric Besnard is interested in what makes the identity of France, through the invention of the concept of the restaurant – heritage place par excellence.
period movie, Delicious indeed puts gastronomy in the spotlight by praising an epicurean art of living, à la française, thanks to a sensual and romantic staging, the lighting of which is inspired by the still lifes of Jean Siméon Chardin.
Grégory Gadebois (discovered on the stage of the Comédie-Française), chosen for his “masculine fragility”, embodies the chef Pierre Manceron. In the midst of the French Revolution, the latter will transform the culinary world by offering his know-how directly to the public thanks to the encouragement of Louise, his apprentice embodied by Isabelle Carré. Together, they form a feminist and tasty duo, surrounded by supporting roles played by the talented Benjamin Lavernhe, Guillaume De Tonquédec and Lorenzo Lefebvre.
A word of advice: keep your stomach empty before seeing this film, the refinement of which will certainly whet your appetite!
Delicious by Eric Besnard with Grégory Gadebois, Isabelle Carré, Benjamin Lavernhe…
Tonight on CANAL+ at 9 p.m.