Cuisine chinoise
1999 Drama / Short   
Director: Frédérique Feder
Starring: Irène Jacob, Yvan Le Bolloc’h, Martine Lapertot, Gérard Selles, Sophie Menges
 
Summary
Patricia realises that the magic has gone out of her relationship with her partner Pascal.  Unable to walk out on him, she decides to use more subtle tactics to put him off, taking ideas from a Chinese book Sun-Tsu’s "The Art of War"...

Credits
  • Director: Frédérique Feder
  • Script: Frédérique Feder
  • Cast: Irène Jacob (Patricia), Yvan Le Bolloc’h (Pascal), Martine Lapertot (Madame Lupin), Gérard Selles (Jean-Claude), Sophie Menges (Reneé), Phillippe Launay (M. Lupin)
  • Country: France
  • Language: French
  • Runtime: 16 min
 
Review
An entertaining, if somewhat inconsequential, short film which paints an all-too believable portrait of a wilting conjugal life.  Even when she behaves like a slob, Irène Jacob is irresistible.

© James Travers 2001



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