THE RIGHT INGRDIENTS

Oscar nominee Tran Anh Hung, who won Best Director at Cannes last year, evolves the language of cinema to present the simple beauty of Vietnam

By Zabrina Lo.

Vietnamese-born French film director and screenwriter Tran Anh Hung likes a good challenge. “Oh, I don’t cook,” he says. That didn’t stop him from adapting Marcel Rouff ’s 1920 novel The Passionate Epicure into a 136-minute film, The Taste of Things (2023), made up largely of cooking scenes. Dishes included some of the most iconic French recipes—and there was no acting when it came to preparing them: Tran insisted that “everything needs to be real in this movie”, meaning the film’s stars Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel had to know how to prepare the food and feel confident doing it. Tran reveres both cooking and filmmaking as artforms. “I’ve always wanted to make a movie about an art. I chose food because everything could be real: from the men and…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2024

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