Cuisine chinoise (1999) - film review
Frédérique Feder
Drama / Short
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"...
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.
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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
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