3/20/2014

COMME UN CHEF

The Chef (in english) Comme un chef (in frech), is a french comedy of 2012 directed by Daniel Cohen. Starring: Jean Reno, Michaël Youn, Raphaëlle Agogué.
Jacky Bonnot, 32, amateur large kitchen, some talent, dreams of success and great restaurant. The financial situation of the torque required to accept small jobs that can not cook to keep. Until he crosses paths with Alexandre Lagarde, great chef whose comfortable situation is endangered by the owner of restaurants financial group.

Jacky Bonnot (Michaël Youn) is a young french living with his pregnant girlfriend (Raphaëlle Agogué). After being fired from a restaurant he becomes worried about the birth of his child, so he decides to get any job despite his fondness for haute cuisine. Accepting a job as a painter, he finds three interns to which he helps improve their menu. These improvements eventually reach Alexandre Vauclair (Jean Reno) who also finds himself in a precarious situation: being a renowned chef of the Cargo Lagarde restaurant, he has to improve or innovate all the menu. If he cannot achieve this, the place will lose a star and Stanislas Matter (Julien Boisselier) will convert it into a molecular kitchen, with Alexandre and all the cooks losing their jobs. Jacky initially rejects the offer to work with Alexandre, because he only offers a internship without payment, but after thinking, he accepts. Next day both Jacky and Alexandre start to cook but as soon as they begin, Jacky's finickiness and Alexandre's stubbornness makes them engage in a discussion that concludes with Jacky being fired.

Alexandre regrets his decision and sends someone to search and take him back to the Cargo Lagarde ranks. They reconcile and start to plan improvements in the restaurant's menu. As Jacky is an intern and has no payments, he lies to his girlfriend about searching jobs but she goes to where he started as a painter and finds herself in the kitchen of the interns, whom are keeping a video call with Jacky. She discovers him lying and they broke their relationship. Alexandre offers him a glass of wine that Jacky accepts, and they keep tasting bottles of wine until both of them becomes slightly drunk. Jacky plans to reconcile with his girlfriend with the help of Alexandre, but the plan fails as she gets mad at his proposal, without much planning and resorting to help. Alexandre offers to Jacky a room in his house to spend the night, and the first gets to talk with his daughter who has a little resentment over his dad indifference towards her thesis and getting her degree.


QUESTIONS:
1) The protagonists of the film are:
a) - A Cook and a businessman
b) -Two professional chefs
c) -Two amateur cooks
d) -A professional chef and an amateur cook

2) The director of this film is:
a) -Luc Besson
b) -Francis Veber
c) -Patrice Leconte
d) -Daniel Cohen

3) This film was released in:
a) -2009
b) -2010
c) -2011
d) -2012


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