Event Details
This month is a flashback Foodie comedy.
We start each Ciné-Club in the cinema entry foyer from 6:00pm.
Focal Point will be selling $10 glasses of wine and complimentary bread and cheese.
The film starts at 6:30pm and supper is available afterwards at Pipi's café (please note on your registration if interested)
Tuesday 12 August, Focal Point, Havelock North.
Cost: $15 for non-members ($10 if you become a member and pay at the venue)
Comme un Chef/ Le Chef(2012)
M - 80 minutes
Comedy
French with English subtitles
Jean Reno plays a veteran chef in this French gastronomic comedy, facing off against his restaurant's CEO who wants to bring in a younger replacement.
"Star chef Alexandre Lagarde (Reno) is in serious conflict with Stanislas Matter (Julien Boisselier), the new CEO of the group that owns his restaurant. Matter is plotting to have him lose one Michelin star in the next edition of the Guide, and replace him with a young 'modern' chef who advocates a chemical, molecular cuisine. Lagarde has run out of ideas... but as luck would have it, he meets Jacky (Michaël Youn) - an aficionado of haute cuisine." (Berlin Film Festival 2011)
Jacky Bonnot, 32 ans, amateur de grande cuisine, au talent certain, rêve de succès et de grand restaurant. La situation financière de son couple le contraint cependant d'accepter des petits boulots de cuistot qu'il n'arrive pas à conserver. Jusqu'au jour où il croise le chemin d'Alexandre Lagarde, grand chef étoilé dont la situation confortable est mise en danger par le groupe financier propriétaire de ses restaurants...(AlloCine)
Book now https://www.afhb.org.nz/#cine
