The Chef
(2012)
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The Chef
(2012)
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| Jean Reno | ... |
Alexandre Lagarde
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| Michaël Youn | ... |
Jacky Bonnot
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Raphaëlle Agogué | ... |
Béatrice
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| Julien Boisselier | ... |
Stanislas Matter
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Salomé Stévenin | ... |
Amandine
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Serge Larivière | ... |
Titi
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Issa Doumbia | ... |
Moussa
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Bun-hay Mean | ... |
Chang
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Pierre Vernier | ... |
Paul Matter
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Santiago Segura | ... |
Juan
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Geneviève Casile | ... |
La mère de Béatrice
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| André Penvern | ... |
Le père de Béatrice
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Rebecca Miquel | ... |
Carole
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| James Gerard | ... |
Cyril Boss
(as James Gérard)
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Henri Payet | ... |
Thibault
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A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.
to sign up a more likable and more possible actor to play the young chef role. this actor simply could not deliver a likable or even believable character. he just looked like a clown, a way-too-ordinary nobody, like Roberto Benigni or Woody Allen, only the movies could allow them to have beautiful women fallen for them. time and again, this nobody-like character in this movie, had a much taller and very beautiful woman being his lover and even carried his child. the screenplay was not good enough to script better dialog. there were so many sections the dialogs were just vague and messy. the arrangement of the characters were also not well developed. it's definitely a comedy, but i never got a chance to smile, albeit laugh for the whole movie. i just felt very awkward and rushed all the time. the scenarios were just too weak. the restaurants and the kitchen scenes also looked vague and unconvincing. this is a barely watchable french movie, definitely not worth blindly copying or adapting by Hollywood again.