The Tasting: “Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri are a great inspiration for me”

Like Un air de famille, it was first a success in the theater (awarded at the Molière 2019), before becoming a film with Isabelle Carré and Bernard Campan, the duo from Se Souvenir des Belles Choses.

20 years later Remembering Beautiful Thingsthe very moving film by Zabou Breitman, Isabelle Carré And Bernard Campan found themselves in 2022 at the cinema in a film that was less melodious and more rom-com: The Tasting.

The story of Jacques, “a gruff divorcee, who runs a small wine cellar alone, on the verge of bankruptcy. Hortense, involved in the association and determined not to end up an old maid, enters his shop one day and decides to sign up for a tasting workshop…”

Directed by Ivan Calbérac, this adaptation of the eponymous play, awarded the 2019 Molière for Best Comedy, arrives free-to-air this weekend on France 2. Here are some explanations from its creator to whet your appetite.

Note that since this project, the actor duo has teamed up once again to And more if affinities. Our review can be read here:

Bernard Campan and Isabelle Carré open the door to neighbors in And more if affinities

“One day, just after our four Molière nominations, Isabelle and Bernard asked me to have lunch together and said to me: ‘What if we made a film?’, said Ivan Calbérac in the press release accompanying the release of The Tasting. 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 expressed it first.”

“Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri are a great inspiration for me, he also explained about this film, which he designed after Irene (2004 with Cécile de France) or The student and Monsieur Henri (2015, with Noémie Schmidt and Claude Brasseur). Kitchen and outbuildings, A family resemblance, The taste of others…these films are and will always be present in me. I also really appreciate what Pierre Salvadori does. Out of pricex, for example, remains for me a wonderful French romantic comedy reference.”

This year, the director returned to cinema with Never confessa new comedy built around a key duo of French cinema: Sabine Azéma and André Dussollier (We know the song, Tanguy…), which marked their twelfth on-screen collaboration!

The Taste of Others: the recipe for success for the Agnès Jaoui – Jean-Pierre Bacri tandem