The Taste of Things

Eugénie (Juliette Binoche) is a cook who is under the employ of Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel), a gourmand with a lovely estate in the French countryside.  Through their many years together, Dodin has fallen in love with Eugénie, though she continually rejects his proposals of marriage but will sometimes entertain his nightly advances.  One summer,…

Pacifiction

With the arrival of marines at Tahiti, a rumor springs to life that locals have spotted a military submarine not far from the coast, heralding the return of French nuclear missile testing in their waters.  The rumors are unavoidable to De Roller (Benoît Magimel), the High Commissioner, who walks the fine line of a playboy…