Jury Films
A Chef in Love / A Chef in Love
Director's bio
Nana Dzhordzhadze
Nana Dzhordzhadze, born on August 24, 1948, in Tbilisi, Georgia, is a renowned Georgian film director, screenwriter, and actress. Dzhordzhadze's directorial debut, "Robinzoniada, anu chemi ingliseli Papa" (1987), won the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. She has directed several acclaimed films, including "A Chef in Love" (1996), which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Her other notable works include "27 Missing Kisses" (2000) and "The Rainbowmaker" (2008).
Synopsis
The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal’s lover translates his memoirs for Pascal’s niece.
Details of Cast
Pierre Richard as Pascal Ichak Micheline Presle as Marcelle Ichak Nino Kirtadze as Cecile Abachidze Jean-Yves Gautier as Anton Gogoladze Temuri Qamkhadze as Zigmund Gogladze Ramaz Chkhikvadze as Anton Gogoladze Kakhi Kavsadze as Le Président Guram Pirtskhalava as Platoon Khatuna Ioseliani as Mme. Kollontai
Details of Crew
Cinematography: Giorgi Beridze Editing: Guili Grigoriani, Vessela Martschewski Music: Goran Bregovic
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Categories
- International Competition (14)
- Homage (4)
- World Cinema (63)
- Country Focus (7)
- Indian Cinema Now (7)
- Kaleidoscope (6)
- Malayalam Cinema Today (12)
- Restored Classics (7)
- Opening Film (1)
- Spirit of Cinema (1)
- Ann Hui: Chronicler of the Outliers (5)
- The Female Gaze (7)
- Signatures In Motion (3)
- Midnight Cinema (3)
- Festival Favourites (13)
- Viva el Cine: Latin American Films (5)
- Refracted Realities : The Existential Mindscapes of Hong Sang-soo (4)
- Chiaroscuro : Retrospective of Madhu Ambat (4)
- Celebrating Shabana Azmi (5)
- Centennial Tribute (3)
