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Renowned gastronome Jean Anthelme Brillat once stated “Tell me what you eat, and I’ll tell you who you are”. He confirms to us that food is more than filling an empty stomach, food has become exploration of culture and how it shapes us. In many cultures, food is a form of communication that plays a big role in defining kinship or family’s rules and tradition.
For that very reason, over the years, food has always been an interesting subject of explorations for movies, as a form of art or a form of bondage, food encapsulates a richer meaning for all of us.
Below are a few of the best food movies that are bound to keep you hungry:
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose ends… until they discover that with the right combination of passion, fearlessness and butter, anything is possible.
A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau.
Chocolat tells the story of a young mother, played by who arrives at the fictional, repressed French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes with her six-year-old daughter and opens La Chocolaterie Maya, a small chocolaterie. Her chocolate quickly begins to change the lives of the townspeople.
4. Eat Drink Man Woman (yǐn shí nán nǚ) (1994)
Senior Master Chef Chu lives in a large house in Taipei with his three unmarried daughters, Jia-Jen, a chemistry teacher converted to Christianity, Jia-Chien, an airline executive, and Jia-Ning, a student who also works in a fast food restaurant. Life in the house revolves around the ritual of an elaborate dinner each Sunday, and the love lives of all the family members.
Tortilla Soup (2001) is a Mexican remake based on this movie.
Isabella uses her cooking skills to escape a bad marriage, a Brazillian chef turned into cooking show goddess where the food is a metaphor for life and she learns that she does not need a man in her life, she needs to cook and be her own woman.
Jenna is a pregnant, unhappily married waitress in the deep south. She meets a newcomer to her town and falls into a unlikely relationship as a last attempt at happiness.
An Academy Award Danish movie about French woman in Denmark who is taken in by a pastor. She lives in a repressed world where earthly pleasures are not permitted, but when she wins the lottery she spends all the money on a feast in memory of the man who took her in during her time of need. The shopping and preparation of the dinner is lavish, and the story is heartwarming.
Tampopo, a widowed noodle chef, is helped to become a first class chef by truck driver Goro and friends. Food is the theme throughout this movie and it includes novel uses of food as erotic toy.
One of the critically acclaimed food movie out there, Big Night tells about Primo and Secondo are two brothers who have emigrated from Italy to open an Italian restaurant in America. Primo is the irascible and gifted chef, brilliant in his culinary genius, but determined not to squander his talent on making the routine dishes that customers expect. Secondo is the smooth front-man, trying to keep the restaurant financially afloat, despite few patrons other than a poor artist who pays with his paintings. The owner of the nearby Pascal’s restaurant, enormously successful (despite its mediocre fare), offers a solution – he will call his friend, a big-time jazz musician, to play a special benefit at their restaurant. Primo begins to prepare his masterpiece, a feast of a lifetime, for the brothers’ big night.
An movie heavily based on the German movie “Mostly Martha” [English title for "Bella Martha"], the story tells about an accomplished female [single] chef who suddenly, tragically finds herself the guardian of her dead sister’s young daughter.
Source: atthepass
