L’Aile ou la cuisse
La cuisse, bien sûr! I love love chicken thighs, though when it comes to a whole chicken, I prefer wings (they are typically more crispy and tasty somehow?). Today’s dinner is rice with two different types of bok choy sautéed in the grease of bacon, ahhh! So nice… it’s incredible how great simple meal can be – though unfortunately I am perhaps the only Asian in the world who does not own chopsticks.
I was happy to have immediately recognized “Duchemin” as Dumont and Michelin, both of which I have never paid attention to. In fact, I barely know anything about high quality food at all, and ultimately I think I prefer home-made or simple everyday food after all (well prepared, of course!). So for a comedy the premise is absolutely wonderful and almost impossible to beat. The only part I found a little weak was the son whose circus endeavours feel quite ridiculous. (Okay, there is another aspect I disliked: Marguerite serves no single purpose but to be a pretty face – even her actress is pretty shitty here.)
The part about taking down Tricatel is a lot of fun though; I mean, hey, factory food IS atrocious unless it’s lasagna, ahaha. The storyline is full of plotholes (how the heck did he get his taste back so randomly?!) but Louis de Funès’ funny faces absolutely make up for these kinds of details.
I think, my favorite experience of watching somebody cook was in a Waffle House at an intersection in North Charleston. A couple was taking care of the store, and while I was waiting for my chicken sandwich (a midnight snack), I had the pleasure to sit at the bar and watch the old man prepare one of those 6 dollar breakfasts: Eggs, hashbrowns etc. Everything was freshly made! I was fairly surprised and pleased… It totally made me want to have breakfast there but unfortunately I did not have an opportunity to.
All in all, it’s a very enjoyable film, very French. As a comedy, it worked wonderfully and I can very well see myself become a Louis de Funès fan now.
You are also probably one of the few people who went to a French school and never watched one of his movies till now. :P
You’re special! *hrrr*
Soooo special~ But really, I have never heard of him ever when I was at school. We don’t get all that much French modern culture in school (modern = post-1945).