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Beauty and the feast: Savoring ‘The Taste of Things’

The marvelous new French film “The Taste of Things,” set in 1885, opens with a culinary flourish. Eugénie (Juliette Binoche), the head cook of a famed Loire Valley château, is whipping up a storm in the kitchen. She swings adroitly between kettles, saucepans, stovetops, and basins as she conjures a potpourri of delicacies – all of which the writer-director, Trần Anh Hùng, exhibits for us in glistening array.

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