"The Pot-au-Feu": A Deliciously Slow-Burning French Romance at Cannes

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Source: Variety
"The Pot-au-Feu": A Deliciously Slow-Burning French Romance at Cannes
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"The Pot au Feu" is a scantly plotted but utterly captivating love story set in a French gourmet château in the late 19th century, where food is the subject, the objective, and the driving motor of the film. The movie holds its audience entirely on the pleasures of beauty, vicarious indulgence, and the human care inherent in haute cuisine, all to obviously mouthwatering but less expectedly moving effect.

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