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Dark and quirky with great visuals...a great representation of the surprisingly popular sub-genre of movies related to cannibalism.

I remember this wacky late seventies flick from my childhood––I remember in the middle of everyone getting killed, the kitchens still seemed fun and exciting to me...

I love Juliette Binoche in anything––this one is a little sentimental but beautifully shot and makes you want to bathe in chocolate!

My parents were huge Claude Lelouch fans––I mean HUGE. Those were basically the only movies I saw until I was around 10 or so. So this isn't really a food movie (except that most French movies do have food scenes or scenes where food is important etc)...but there is a scene that has stuck with me my whole life. I haven't seen the movie in years so this may be vague but there is a scene where there is a wedding on the lawn in front of an old chateau and there are beautiful tables set outside in the grass with tablecloths and candelabras and an amazing feast and kids are running around and everyone is eating and drinking and really enjoying all the things that a fabulous meal can bring. I always have that vision in the back of my head--even when I planned my own wedding, I wanted that same feeling and sense of joie de vivre that comes with an amazing long and festive meal.

I completely resisted this for months (I don't love animation and I generally don't like food movies––did I say that? Actually what I don't like are restaurant movies because they are so unrealistic––seriously, people having sex in the middle of Saturday night service––I don't think so!)...anyway, this movie…