A Chef in Love Movie Review 1996

In 1920, Parisian Pascal Ishac (Richard) meets Georgian Princess Cecilia (Kirtadze) while travelling and decides to stay and open a French restaurant in the capital of Tbilisi. When the capital is invaded by the Red Army in 1921, communist leader Zigmund (Kahmhadze) forces Cecilia to marry him and shuts down Pascal's eatery. With his great love and his restaurant both gone, Pascal writes a master cookbook and memoir that is later discovered and translated by Cecilia's son Anton (Gautier), who also discovers that Pascal is his father. French, Russian and Georgian with subtitles.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 95 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Comedy Drama, Edibles, This Is Your Life, Family Ties

Screenplay

Irakli Kvirikadze

Cast

Pierre Richard, Nino Kirtadze, Temur Kahmhadze, Jean-Yves Gautier, Micheline Presle

Cinematography

Georgi Beridze

Director

Nana Dzhordzadze

Music

Goran Bregovic

Producer

Les Films du Rivage, Sony Pictures Classics