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27.01.2022 - 21:37 / variety.com
Michael Nordine authorThe former Jaime Lannister is a different kind of ruthless in “A Taste of Hunger,” a foodie film whose protagonist’s ambition is summarized by the opening epigraph: “If you ask me what I want, I’ll tell you I want everything.” Everything, in this case, is the restaurant world’s crowning achievement: a Michelin star, which since 1926 has designated the best of the best around the world. Only 2,817 eateries have been so honored, and director Christoffer Boe’s drama focuses on a restaurateur’s quest to become the 2,818th.
The result certainly isn’t fast food, but neither is it fine dining.While it would be wrong to say that “Game of Thrones” didn’t allow Nikolaj Coster-Waldau to display his increasingly impressive range as a performer, we certainly never saw the kingslayer obsessing over wild apples, French vinaigrettes or other mouthwatering delicacies. Not that this relationship is any less complicated here: Carsten and Maggie (Katrine Greis-Rosenthal) are partners in life as well as in business, and Malus, the restaurant they open together in Copenhagen, takes up most of their time — so much so, in fact, that one of them eventually looks beyond the marriage to fulfill their needs.
Denmark may seem like an odd setting for a narrative of this kind until you remember that Noma, a three-Michelin-star restaurant based in Copenhagen, has been named the world’s best restaurant on five different occasions. And while the film’s fictional establishment probably doesn’t serve them, there’s no denying the hygge-like joys that come with Danish staples like frikadeller, brændende kærlighed and flæskesteg.
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Guy Lodge Film CriticIt’s been nearly seven years since the devastating November 2015 terrorist attacks on Paris that left 137 dead, and while the effects of the tragedy have been indirectly felt in a surge of French films centered on terrorism, security fears and cultural conflict, filmmakers have largely shied away from direct dramatizations of the events and their fallout. Isaki Lacuesta shows no such hesitation in his ambitious, windingly structured “One Year, One Night,” which provides an explicit anatomy of trauma as experienced over the course of a year by a Franco-Spanish couple who survived the Bataclan nightclub massacre — itself reconstructed in claustrophobic, stomach-knotting flashbacks.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentMemento International has closed major sales on Ursula Meier’s Berlin contender “The Line,” and “Boy from Heaven” by Tarik Saleh, the Swedish-Egyptian helmer of “The Nile Hilton Incident.” A religious and political thriller, “Boy From Heaven” is set in Cairo, in a Koranic school following the collapse of a grand imam which marks the start of a ruthless battle for influence.The movie is headlined by Tawfeek Barhom and Fares Fares, who previously starred in “The Nile Hilton Incident.” Saleh’s Stockholm-based outfit Atmo is producing the movie with Memento. Memento International has sold the film to Benelux (Cineart), Spain (La Aventura), Italy (Movies Inspired), Greece (Cinobo), Hungary (Vertigo) and Middle East (Falcon). Other territories in negotiation.
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Rock En Seine has announced a new wave of acts for 2022 – check out the festival’s full line-up below.The French festival is due to take place across four days (August 25-28) at the Domaine National de Saint-Cloud in Paris.Tame Impala and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds were announced as two of this year’s headliners last October, with Arctic Monkeys confirming their bill-topping appearance the following month.Today (February 8) organisers have added Joy Crookes, Griff, Perfume Genius and Remi Wolf to the line-up, as well as Soulwax, Izia, Aldous Harding, Crystal Murray, Lala&Ce, November Ultra, Nu Genea, Priya Ragu, Requin Chagrin and Vendredi Sur Mer.Additionally, it’s been confirmed that Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes and Ausgang will open for Rage Against The Machine at their standalone Rock En Seine date with Run The Jewels on August 30.⚡️ROCK EN SEINE 2022 ⚡️⛵️ Embarquement immédiat pour les nouveaux noms de cette édition XXL
EXCLUSIVE: Greenwich Entertainment has taken North American rights to A Taste of Whale, a documentary by Vincent Kelner on the annual slaughter of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands. The ancient practice, which has met with modern resistance from Sea Shepherd and other animal rights groups, involves herding hundreds of the large dolphins into coves, inlets or fjords where they can be easily killed and butchered.
Sarah Hyland recently appeared on the and admitted that while she isn’t opposed to sneaking off and getting hitched, her fiancé Wells Adams is a little more romantic.“Naturally we talked about all of the options since we had to cancel ours,” she told guest host Mario Lopez. “But I am totally fine with eloping. Either Vegas or going to the south of France just the two of us.” Hyland added about her future husband’s take, “But Wells is such a romantic and he wants everybody to be there,” she said. “Maybe that says he loves his family more than I do but I don’t know I think that hopefully this will be the year, but I don’t know.” “But we’re going to have the people that we love there, which is a lot of people, so we want everybody to be safe,” she added.
Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentFilms Boutique (“Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom”) has acquired international sales rights to Vincent Kelner’s cinematic documentary feature “A Taste of Whale” ahead of the European Film Market.“A Taste of Whale” is produced by Rémi Grellety, the Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning producer of Raoul Peck’s “I Am Not Your Negro” and HBO’s “Exterminate All The Brutes.”The film looks at the centuries-old tradition of whale hunting in the Faroe Islands. Every year, nearly 1,000 pilot whales are hunted, beached and killed by knife in the fjords.
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The secret to replicating the unique, addictive taste of McDonald’s fries at home is to use both salt and sugar.“So, the first key is that you have to use fine sea salt,” says Chef Kristen Kish. “You hear a lot of chefs saying, ‘Kosher salt.
Leo Barraclough International Features EditorWorld War II refugee drama “The Path” (Der Pfad) has debuted its international trailer (above) ahead of its market premiere at the European Film Market in Berlin. Warner will release the film theatrically in Germany, while Global Screen is handling international rights.“The Path,” directed by Tobias Wiemann, is based on Rüdiger Bertram’s novel and is inspired by true events.