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Vietnamese-born director Tran Anh Hung on the closing ceremony of the cinema program “Hole Go Mua Thu” (Autumn Encounters) in Ho Chi Minh Metropolis in July 2023. Picture by VnExpress/Thanh Nguyen |
In keeping with Selection, representing France, the movie made it to the shortlisted nominations together with different works from Armenia, Bhutan, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia, Ukraine, and the UK.
An inventory of official nominees, chosen from these 15 works, will likely be named on Jan. 23, whereas the 2024 Oscars award ceremony is predicted to happen on the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California, on March 10, 2024.
France final gained an Oscar for Greatest Worldwide Characteristic Movie in 1993.
“La Ardour de Dodin Bouffant” is a display screen adaptation of the 1924 novel “La Vie et la ardour de Dodin-Bouffant, Gourmand” (The Life Epicure) by Marcel Rouff.
It tells the story of a chef named Eugénie (Juliette Binoche) and a gastronome named Dodin (Benoît Magimel), who’ve labored collectively for 20 years earlier than discovering they’ve feelings for one another. As Eugénie hesitates after receiving Dodin’s proposal, Dodin decides to cook dinner for his beloved for the primary time in his life.
The image has acquired optimistic acclaim from critics. The Guardian regarded the movie as “fantastically shot,” whereas Deadline mentioned it featured a “fantastically dealt with remedy of cookery as each poetry and efficiency artwork.”
It additionally helped Hung win the Best Director prize on the 76th Cannes Worldwide Movie Competition in Might this yr.
In an interview with Selection in Might, Hung mentioned he determined to make “The Pot au Feu” to raised perceive challenges that directing a film associated to gastronomy could current.
“My first problem was to make a movie that did not seem like any others,” he mentioned.
“The concept was to weave gastronomy right into a love story and see how a person and a lady who share the identical ardour for the culinary artwork and have lived collectively for over 25 years kind this religious bond.”
Hung, 61, attended the celebrated École Louis-Lumière movie college in France. His work “The Scent of Inexperienced Papaya” acquired an Oscar nomination for Greatest International Language Movie. It’s nonetheless the one Vietnamese-language movie to ever be nominated for an Academy Award.
Hung gained the Golden Lion award on the Venice Movie Competition for his movie “Cyclo” in 1995. He additionally directed the movie adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s well-known novel “Norwegian Wooden” in 2010, which was nominated for the Golden Lion.