Cinema I/O to host free screening of ‘The Taste of Things’ (2023) on Tuesday

CINEMA I/O PRESENTS: ‘THE TASTE OF THINGS’ TUESDAY 11/17. CALS Ron Robinson Theater. 7 p.m. Free. Tran Anh Hung’s “The Taste of Things” (2023), one of the great contemporary “food movies,” opens with a 38-minute sequence in which Eugénie (Juliette Binoche), the personal chef of a wealthy 19th-century gastronome named Dodin (Benoît Magimel), prepares an elaborate meal, setting the tone of the film and expertly introducing the characters with hardly any dialogue to speak of. While Eugénie and Dodin, both middle-aged, maintain a romantic relationship — an arrangement that’s been in place for 20 years — the two sleep apart, and only when granted permission does Dodin enter Eugénie’s room to spend the night. Dodin periodically asks Eugénie to marry him, an overture she always rebuffs because she likes the way things are. But, as Eugénie says, they’re in the “autumn of their lives,” so perhaps it’s OK to take a chance?

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