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“The Hundred-Foot Journey” is a film that demands that you take it seriously. With its feel-good themes of multicultural understanding, it is about Something Important. It even comes with the stamp of approval from titanic tastemakers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg , who both serve as producers. What more convincing could you possibly need?

There’s something familiar about the treacly and sanctimonious way this film is being packaged. It reeks of late-‘90s/early ‘00s Miramax fare: films with tasteful yet ubiquitous ad campaigns and unabashed Oscar aspirations which suggested that seeing them (and, more importantly, voting for them) would make you a better person. Films like “The Cider House Rules,” “Chocolat” and “The Shipping News.” Films by Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom.

Hallstrom just happens to be the director here, as well, and the similarities to “Chocolat” are inescapable. Stop me if think you’ve heard this one before: A family moves into a quaint but closed-minded French village and shakes things up with an enticing array of culinary delicacies. This new enterprise happens to sit across the street from a conservative and revered building that’s a town treasure. But the food in question isn’t a bon bon this time—rather, the movie is the bon bon itself.

But despite being handsomely crafted, well acted and even sufficiently enjoyable, “The Hundred-Foot Journey” is also conventional and predictable. And for a film that’s all about opening up your senses and sampling spicy, exotic tastes, this comic drama is entirely too safe and even a little bland.

What livens things up, though, is the interplay between Helen Mirren and Om Puri as battling restaurant owners operating across the street from each other—100 feet away from each other, to be exact, a short but fraught trip that various characters take for various reasons. Watching these veteran actors stoop to sabotage each other provides a consistent source of laughs. She’s all sharp angles, piercing looks and biting quips; he’s all round joviality, boisterous blasts and warmhearted optimism. The contrast between the British Oscar-winner and the Indian acting legend offers the only tension in this otherwise soft and gooey dish—that is, until the film goes all soft and gooey, too.

Mirren stars as Madame Mallory, owner of Le Saule Pleurer (The Weeping Willow), an elegant and expensive French restaurant that’s the winner of a prestigious Michelin star. But one star isn’t enough for the coldly driven Mme. Mallory—she wants another, and then another.

But her bloodless quest for gourmet grandeur is interrupted by the arrival across the street of an Indian family: the Kadams, who’ve been wandering around Europe ever since their beloved restaurant back home burned down during political rioting. When the brakes on their car malfunction on a treacherous stretch of spectacular countryside, Papa (Puri) insists it’s a sign from his late wife and decides to open a new eatery in the charming town at the bottom of the hill.

Never mind that one of the most celebrated restaurants in all of France is sitting right across the street from the empty building he rents. Never mind that they are in an insular part of the country where the residents probably don’t even know what Indian cuisine is, much less like it, as his children point out. He has faith in his food—and in his son, Hassan ( Manish Dayal ), a brilliant, young chef.

Just as Papa and Mme. Mallory strike up a sparky rivalry, Hassan enjoys a flirtatious relationship with French sous chef Marguerite ( Charlotte Le Bon , who played an early model and muse in the recent “Yves Saint Laurent” biopic). The script from Steven Wright (who also wrote the far trickier “ Locke ” from earlier this year, as well as “ Dirty Pretty Things ” and “ Eastern Promises ”) is full of such tidy parallels, as well as trite and overly simplistic proclamations about how food inspires memories. Dayal and Le Bon do look lovely together, though, and share a light, enjoyable chemistry.

Then again, it all looks lovely—both the French and Indian dishes as well as the lush, rolling surroundings, which we see through all four seasons; the work of cinematographer Linus Sandgren , who recently shot “American Hustle.” This sweetly pleasing combination of ingredients would have been perfectly suitable if the film didn’t take a wild and needless detour in the third act. That’s when it becomes an even less interesting movie than it already was, in spite of its loftier aspirations.

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The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014)

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Helen Mirren as Madam Mallory

Om Puri as Papa

Manish Dayal as Hassan Haji

Charlotte Le Bon as Marguerite

Amit Shah as Mansur

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Julie & Julia (2009), Chef (2014)… We sure do love a movie that combines food and travel . It helps when the foodie film is shot in some faraway, gorgeous locale like middle-of-nowhere France. But, exactly where was The Hundred-Foot Journey filmed?

The Hundred-Foot Journey  (2014) is based on a novel about a rivalry between a Michelin-starred French restaurant and the new Indian restaurant across the street. Exactly 100 ft opposite. The Kadam family must prove that Maison Mumbai is a fine establishment while Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren) objects to their presence.

You will be disappointed to find out there aren’t many  The Hundred-Foot Journey  filming locations in France, or anywhere for that matter. Director Lasse Hallström shot a lot of the movie in Cité du Cinéma studio just north of Paris . And he used a heck of a lot of CGI and green screen on the locations that do exist so in real life they are almost unrecognisable. But don’t worry! There are still some beautiful The Hundred-Foot Journey locations you can visit and I’ve listed them all and provided a map, too.

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The Hundred-Foot Journey Filming Locations in France

1. saint-antonin-noble-val, tarn-et-garonne.

The film opens with the Kadam family in Mumbai, India . Terrorists bomb their restaurant over a political issue, so the family seek asylum in London, England before settling in Midi-Pyrénées . The first The Hundred-Foot Journey  location in France is an ambiguous one. Hallström filmed for nine weeks in Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val , situated in the Tarn-et-Garonne  department. So, most of the street scenes and countryside scenes next to the river are in and around this town.

I’m just not exactly sure where! Because as I mentioned,  a lot of the scenes are rife with CGI. If you know of any specific filming locations, do let me know.

2. Castelnau-de-Lévis, Tarn-et-Garonne

I’m not sure if  Castelnau-de-Lévis  is one of  The Hundred-Foot Journey  film locations or not. My research tells me it might be! It’s really close to  Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val  in the same region. Maybe the scene at the beginning of the film when Marguerite helps tow the Kadam family to the garage? Who knows! Beautiful village either way.

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3. Carlus, Tarn-et-Garonne

This is a The Hundred-Foot Journey  filming location I am 100% certain exists. Not long after rolling into town, Papa Kadam (Om Puri) stumbles across a dilapidated farmhouse/restaurant. He sees the potential to turn it into a high-quality Indian restaurant-cum-home for his family. Madame Mallory’s restaurant Le Saule Pleureur  is directly opposite his.

I’m sure you already sensed there is some CGI at play here. In fact, there is  a lot .  Maison Mumbai  is an actual farmhouse that the film crew rented for a few weeks. But Le Saule Pleureur ? The facade is half set, half CGI and the landscape surrounding the two restaurants is mostly CGI.  The Hundred-Foot Journey  shot the exterior restaurant scenes in a very small village called  Carlus  just off the  D84 road . I’ve pinned the precise farmhouse on the Google map at the top of this post.

It is a private residence so unfortunately, you probably can’t rock up and have a wander around.

4. Halle de Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, Place de la Halle, Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val

Fortunately, this is another The Hundred-Foot Journey  film location that is very real. It’s the farmer’s market in the centre of the town. The characters purchase fresh produce for their respective restaurants from Halle de Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val   in Place de la Halle . The main structure dates back to 1840 but most of the market sprawls out onto the streets. The market takes place every Sunday morning and has existed in one form or another for over a century.

Throughout the film, characters sit at various restaurants and cafés in  Place de la Halle . One of which is Glaces Café .

5. Chateau La Durantié, Lanouaille

The exterior of  La Saule Pleureur  might be an illusion, but the interior is very real. It is extremely swanky Chateau La Durantié  in  Lanouaille . It boasts well-lit, bright white dining rooms, high ceilings and I’m sure the food served at this place is top-notch too.

6. Georges, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Madame Mallory hires Hassan, Maison Mumbai’s top chef, and he promptly earns her a Michelin star. Soon, all the top Parisian restaurants want to hire him so he leaves Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val  to work at  La Baleine Grise , a modern French fusion restaurant. In reality, the restaurant is  Georges   which occupies the top floor of  Centre Pompidou   in  Paris . It has an industrial design with glass walls so customers are treated to a beautiful panoramic view of the city.

So, where was The Hundred-Foot Journey  filmed? All of these filming locations are in France! Have you watched the movie or visited any of The Hundred-Foot Journey  filming locations? Let me know in the comments below!

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Bonjour Rebecca! Thank you for this interesting article. In 1984 I was an exchange student to France, living in a tiny village called Orban. My host mother’s parents lived in a neighboring village… Carlus! It was a very big deal to everyone when the American film crew came to make this movie. I now show it when doing a food unit in my high school French class. Amazing the way life can connect through the years!

Thanks so much for that story, Karen! I bet it was so surreal for the people with all the crew and set pieces around 😀

Hi Rebecca, well done in researching these locations, which I’m planning to take in on my next road trip to France. In the credits the town of Monteux was mentioned, which is near Carpentras in Provence. I can’t find any specific reason why this is so – have you considered this?

Hey Richard! I have to admit, this was a tough film to research. Not only because of the lack of information online and information available from the production but because of the really heavy CGI use throughout the movie. So if it’s not in the blog post it’s because I wasn’t able to identify which scene it was used for… Sorry I couldn’t be more help, enjoy your trip! 🙂

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• The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.
• The family of talented cook, Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal), has a life filled with both culinary delights and profound loss. Drifting through Europe after fleeing political violence in India that killed the family restaurant business and their mother, the Kadams arrive in France. Once there, a chance auto accident and the kindness of a young woman, Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon), in the village of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val inspires Papa Kadam (Om Puri) to set up a Indian restaurant there. Unfortunately, this puts the Kadams in direct competition with the snobbish Madame Mallory's acclaimed haute cuisine establishment across the street where Marguerite also works as a sous-chef. The resulting rivalry eventually escalates in personal intensity until it goes too far. In response, there is a bridging of sides initiated by Hassan, Marguerite, and Madame Mallory (Dame Helen Mirren), both professional and personal, that encourages an understanding that will change both sides forever. — Kenneth Chisholm ([email protected])
• The Kadam family after leaving India due to a fatal tragedy finally settle in a small town in southern France. They set up a traditional family run Indian restaurant just like they had always planned but opposite a competitive French restaurant. This initial rivalry creates unexpected twists for the better and for the worse in the lives of both the Kadam family and Madame Mallory (Dame Helen Mirren), the owner of the Michelin star restaurant a hundred feet away. — Viir khubchandani
• Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal), the oldest of five siblings, was taught how to cook, but more importantly truly taste and love food, by his mother. Their entire family works together in their open air eatery in Mumbai. In his role, Hassan considers himself a cook and not a chef as he was never professionally trained. Following the tragic death of Hassan's mother, his well-off but frugal Papa Kadam (Om Puri) decides to pack up the family and move to Europe to open a restaurant, the business to keep to his wife's memory in their love of South Asian cuisine. After an initial business misstep in London, Papa believes it is fate that their van breaks down just outside of the French town of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, that they meet a local foodie, a young woman named Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon), who introduces them to the abundance of fresh locally sourced produce, seafood and meats, and that there is an abandoned restaurant property on the outskirts of town for sale. Against the wishes of the family, Papa decides to purchase the property for their business, even after learning that the previous owners could not make a go of it because it is a mere one hundred feet from Le Saule Pleureur, a Michelin-starred restaurant where Marguerite works as a sous-chef, she trying to work her way up to chef-de-cuisine. Papa's resolve is strengthened as he believes their style of food is not only different than the French, but better in their bold flavors, something he wants to show the locals. Madame Mallory (Dame Helen Mirren), Le Saule Pleureur's proprietress, took over its running following the death of her husband. The restaurant is now her entire life, and she has waited close to thirty years for it to receive its second Michelin-star, so far without success. Madame Mallory does not take too kindly to her new neighbors, not only as potential competition, but in the Kadams', most specifically Papa's, brash and forward approach to life, unlike the refined French. An initial action by Madame Mallory to make sure Maison Mumbai, the Kadams' restaurant, doesn't succeed, leads to an all out war between her and Papa. But a potential bridge emerges between the two restaurants with the budding friendship and possible romance between Hassan and Marguerite. Beyond that friendship and romance, Hassan believes, to survive, they have to meld their bold flavors to local ingredients and techniques, he who wants to learn the art of French cooking from Marguerite. A singular action in that war results in what could be a fundamental shift between all the players at Le Saule Pleureur and Maison Mumbai. — Huggo
• Put young Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal) in a kitchen, and he's bound to emerge with a dish that will dazzle. When Hassan's family is forced to move from their native India, his Papa (Om Puri) relocates to a peaceful hamlet in Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val in the south of France. Determined to give his new neighbors a little taste of home, Papa decides to open an Indian restaurant in the village, and names it "Maison Mumbai". Meanwhile, across the street at the traditional French restaurant Le Saule Pleureu, uptight proprietor Madame Mallory (Dame Helen Mirren) doesn't exactly welcome the competition. When Madame Mallory ignites a bitter feud that quickly escalates, the only hope for a peaceful resolution lies in Hassan's talent for French haute cuisine, and his growing affections for Madame Mallory's pretty young sous chef Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon). Subsequently impressed by Hassan's undeniable culinary talents, Madame Mallory agrees to become Hassan's mentor, in the process providing the perfect creative environment where his unique fusion cuisine can thrive.
• The Kadam family runs a restaurant in Mumbai. The second-oldest son, Hassan (Manish Dayal), was being groomed to replace his mother Ammi (Juhi Chawla) as the restaurant's main cook. However, a mob attacks and firebombs the restaurant after election related riots which are targeted against Muslim establishments. Papa Kadam (Om Puri) and his family evacuate the guests, but Ammi is killed. The oldest son Mansur (Amit Shah) and his sister Mahira (Farzana Dua Elahe) also escape. Seeking asylum in Europe, the family first settles in London, where their residence proves ill-suited for a restaurant as it was on the approach path for airplanes landing at Heathrow and very noisy. Hassan continues to teach himself on cooking skills with European meats. Hassan believes that London vegetables have no soul. They depart for mainland Europe. Shortly after entering France, the brakes on Papa's van fail near Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val in the Midi-Pyrenees. Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon), a sous chef at an upscale French restaurant named "Le Saule Pleureur" ("The Weeping Willow"), passes by and offers to help the Kadams find an auto repair shop (to get the van fixed) and a guest house. She brings the Kadams to her apartment and treats them to cold food. Papa is amazed at the quality of the food in the village and its availability and discovers that Marguerite made the food herself. Papa learns of an abandoned restaurant building available for purchase in the town. It's located directly across the street--only 100 feet-from another restaurant called Le Saule Pleureur. The abandoned restaurant has space for 50 tables, has a covered yard and space for a Tandoori oven. The family is against buying the restaurant as the previous owners could also not make it work due to the restaurant across the street. The Le Saule has a Michelin Star. Papa is adamant that they have a unique cuisine to offer and buys the restaurant. Papa believes that the locals have never tasted their food, and hence don't know what they are missing in life. Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren), "Le Saule Pleureur's owner, asks the Kadams to leave (when he comes to inspect the property) because it is "private property". Papa buys the property, even though the rest of his family is against it, and names the restaurant "Maison Mumbai". Hassan finds many French cookbooks in the restaurant. The family works together to fix the restaurant and make it ready for opening night. Mallory runs a tight ship and makes sure that only perfect dishes are served in her restaurant with the freshest ingredients supplied by local markets. Marguerite tells Hassan that Mallory only cares about earning the 2nd star for her restaurant. Marguerite is herself studying to become the Chef De Cuisine. Mallory comes over to Maison Mumbai to ask for a menu and then buys all the locally available ingredients needed to cook their dishes on opening night. Papa and Hassan have to drive 50 miles to another town to get the ingredients they need. This leaves them with very little time to complete the cooking. No customers turn up for the opening night, so Papa changes into a traditional Indian wear and waits outside the restaurant to entice passersby to enter the restaurant. Mallory's Le Saule is an upscale dining experience, while Maison Mumbai has a festive feel to it. A cold war erupts between Papa and Mallory. Meanwhile Hassan learns French cooking with constant help & a budding romance with Marguerite. Papa & Mallory continue to try and rile each other by filing complaints about each other with the town mayor (Michel Blanc). Mallory complains about the loud music at Papa's restaurant. Papa pays in kind by buying all the pigeons needed for Mallory's menu that she prepared for the visiting minister. Hassan feels this is morally wrong and gifts the pigeons to Mallory by cooking them into a dish, as per specifications. Mallory tastes the dish and throws it in garbage, but secretly she knows that it was cooked perfectly. The war peaks on Bastille Day when one of Mallory's chefs, Jean-Pierre (Clément Sibony), and two others vandalize the Kadams' restaurant by spray-painting words which translate to "France for the French" on the outer wall and firebombing the interior (Mallory has nothing to do with it). Hassan catches the arsonists in the act and scares them off, but his hands and legs are burned from the petrol bombs. That evening Mallory fires Jean-Pierre and cleans up the graffiti on Maison Mumbai's outer wall. Hassan, having heard from Marguerite that Mallory hires potential chefs by taste-testing an omelet and deciding whether the person is indeed a great chef, asks if he may cook an omelet for her to his recipe. Due to his injured hands, Mallory helps under Hassan's supervision. After tasting the omelet, Mallory recognizes Hassan's potential and invites him to work for her. Papa is initially against the move, but ultimately strikes a deal with her as to Hassan's pay. They settle on 320 euros a week, increasing to 350 euros after 3 months. Hassan goes to take Marguerite's permission to cook for Mallory, as he knows that entering Mallory's kitchen would put Hassan and Marguerite in direct competition with each other. Hassan's cooking results in Mallory's restaurant receiving its second Michelin Star. The award draws national attention to Hassan's cooking, and he is offered and accepts a job in Paris. Papa and Mallory make amends and begin seeing each other. Hassan's cooking in Paris quickly receives critical acclaim, fueling speculation of a third Michelin Star for the Paris restaurant, but his work is increasingly bogged down by thoughts of his family and Marguerite (with whom he had an ongoing romance). Hassan returns home and reunites with Marguerite. He invites Marguerite to join him in a business venture-buying a stake in Mallory's restaurant, along with operational control. Hassan believes this will help the restaurant earn its third star. That evening, Hassan and Marguerite prepare dinner at Mallory's restaurant and bring the dishes across the road to the courtyard of Maison Mumbai for all to enjoy.

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The Hundred-Foot Journey Reviews

Mirren is drily funny, deploying an arsenal of MasterChef-style horrified reaction shots.

Full Review | Apr 7, 2023

How wrong can you go with a comedy about beautiful people making beautiful food in the south of France? And Helen Mirren? The woman can turn 105 and she'll still be alluring, even when she's being haughty. Lots of laughs.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 19, 2022

It's an enjoyable film about passion; the passion for food, passion for culture but most of all, passion for life.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 1, 2021

This isn't your usual summer fare, because it cares far too much about the people whose story it is telling and it takes the time to let you get to know them.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

If you're into simple, pleasant movies that offer two-hour escapist entertainment, this may be for you.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 20, 2020

[A] beautifully written story.

Full Review | Feb 5, 2020

Fulfilling, rich and delicious, The Hundred Foot Journey is an effervescent delight, sizzling with cinematic and emotional flavor.

Full Review | Dec 14, 2019

If films about the culinary arts revolved around the same strictures to obtain something like a Michelin star rating, The Hundred-Foot Journey would always and forever be a big fat zero.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 30, 2019

For foodies and folks looking for the cinematic version of a poolside paperback, THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY delivers. If you're seeking something with a little artistic nutrition, you'll need to look elsewhere.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5 | Apr 8, 2019

Overall, The Hundred-Foot Journey is not a bad dish, but considering its rich ingredients, it still lacks a bit of spice.

Full Review | Feb 27, 2019

There's an in-built contradiction between the film's attempt to position itself as an ode to cultural understanding while also being a commercially twee depiction of that tale

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 25, 2019

As you might imagine, visually, it's a stunning film, and the story is endearing. Dayal and Le Bon are charming, and Helen Mirren, well, is Helen Mirren.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 11, 2018

"The Hundred-Foot Journey" is a delicious love story portraying the melting and blending of two opposing cultures.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 21, 2018

This underachieving cooking infomercial left me starving for a decent movie experience. Cancel your reservations to this rancid soufflé.

Full Review | Aug 21, 2018

Has a lot of pedigree behind it, but is sadly unable to transcend its habit of skimming through information and any form of drama whatsoever.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 13, 2018

If you don't leave the theatre wanting to visit France and eat Indian food, then you didn't enjoy it as much as I did. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 30, 2018

With its fine cast, glorious setting, and countless scenes of mouthwatering menus, The Hundred-Foot Journey is an appetizing alternative to summer's superheroes and zombies.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.5/10 | Dec 3, 2017

If you can deal with the uneven narrative - and in this case there's no reason you shouldn't - there is a lot to like about this film.

Full Review | Nov 28, 2017

Reality-bites are fleeting here. This is a food fairytale which prefers the sweet to the tart, cream to the karelas of life. Yet, it takes all those tastes to create a great dish.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 14, 2017

It may play out predictably, and feature more fake fireworks than it should, but The Hundred-Foot Journey is charming, with enough heart and genuine laughs to forgive its formulaic nature.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 7, 2017

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Meals as Metaphors: Two New Movies Provide Food for Thought

I smail Merchant’s name is already a noun: Merchant Ivory films, so-called after the production company he cofounded, are synonymous with lavish period pieces. To those who knew him well, though, there’s a verb he could have inspired, too. The British-Indian movie mogul put his kitchen skills good use as a business strategy, says the author Richard C. Morais, who met Merchant some 30 years ago: feed first, ask questions later. “The actor Simon Callow used to say that the term ‘curry favor’ was invented for Ismail,” Morais recalls.

So it was that Morais learned an important lesson: food isn’t just for eating.

Morais turned that knowledge into his novel The Hundred-Foot Journey , about an upstart Indian restaurant that opens across the street from a Michelin-starred French joint, which he hoped Merchant would adapt for the big screen. Though Merchant died before the book was published, The Hundred-Foot Journey hits theaters on Aug. 8, and it won’t be alone in claiming that a meal can be a metaphor. In Journey , cooking is culture; in the romantic comedy What If , a gigantic sandwich stands in for a relationship — a messy dish for messy love.

Elan Mastai, What If ’s screenwriter, has a theory about why what movie characters eat often means so much — that is, why his blending of peanut butter and jelly and bacon and butter can be more than a heart attack waiting to happen: “These flavors kind of have a built in nostalgia, and it’s also fat and sugar and gluten,” he says. “Put them all together and your body reacts in a very visceral way — and, weirdly, in an emotional way.”

Silver-screen sustenance has a long history — Journey director Lasse Hallström was responsible for one of its high points, Chocolat — but the obsession with the kitchen is getting hotter. Both the French import Le Chef and Jon Favreau’s taco-truck passion project Chef arrived in U.S. theaters this summer, after a winter in which Labor Day linked pie and sex and the acclaimed Bollywood film The Lunchbox gave new meaning to “magic beans” by bringing its haricots of happiness (and lots of other love-provoking midday munchies) to American audiences. And as both The Hundred-Foot Journey and What If show, food movies are rarely about food. The former, despite a plot that revolves around restaurant reviews, is actually about tolerance and tradition; the latter is about young love.

The What If sandwich, a favorite of Elvis Presley’s known as the Fool’s Gold, shows up as a throwaway reference in the play on which the movie is based, but Mastai ramped up its role when he saw that it echoed the movie’s theme: something can be untidy and delicious at the same time. And the extra layer of meaning Morais gave to the food in Journey was what attracted producer Juliet Blake, who ended up shepherding the story to theaters. Blake tells TIME that the story reminded her of her German mother’s making strudel rather than cake even after she emigrated, and she quotes Adam Gopnik’s book The Table Comes First to explain why: “Food,” he writes, “is the sensual pleasure that translates most readily into a social value.”

That’s a lot to ask of cinematic comestibles. Take The Hundred-Foot Journey for example, in which a hint of cardamom can signify the entirety of Indian-ness; it would be unreasonable to expect a meal, however nuanced the taste, to capture the intricacies of something so complicated. Shilpa Davé, author of the book Indian Accents: Brown Voice and Racial Performance in American Television and Film , explains that eating and enjoying food is a good step toward intercultural intimacy, but that consumers sometimes need to be reminded that eating the food doesn’t mean knowing everything about the culture. Anita Mannur, author of Culinary Fictions: Food in South Asian Diasporic Culture , agrees, saying the potential problem of laying all that meaning on eating is simple: the typical post- Monsoon Wedding depiction of Indian people in films for Western audiences — “colorful and bright and with good food” — doesn’t always leave room for the complications of real life. She read the book of The Hundred-Foot Journey and enjoyed that it made the point that food can remind people of how they don’t belong, but it’s still clear that even the most delicious-looking feast can stumble as a metaphor.

“There’s this idea that if we can only just sit down together all the tensions of the world will go away,” Mannur says. “That’s an appealing solution, but it’s unrealistic.”

But in Juliet Blake’s case, at least, the unrealistic has proved attainable. The cast and crew of Hundred-Foot Journey ate well on set — the location catering included foie gras — and the film’s star, Om Puri, who plays the patriarch, will make sure the tradition of sitting down together continues. When he comes to New York for the film’s premiere, Blake plans to host him at her Brooklyn home. She says he’s going to teach her how to make Indian food.

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10 Most Surprising Things In Rotten Tomatoes Best Movies Ever List

• Rotten Tomatoes' top 300 movies list contains many surprising choices, with unique rankings that go against the grain.
• Classic films like Titanic and The Shawshank Redemption are notably absent from Rotten Tomatoes' list, highlighting the unusual formula that it uses.
• Rotten Tomatoes' list favors crowd-pleasing blockbusters over award-winning films, showcasing a preference for audience appeal.

Rotten Tomatoes recently released a new ranking of the 300 best movies ever, but the list is filled with odd surprises when analyzed in detail. The list uses a formula which takes into account a movie's audience score as well as its critical reception. (via Rotten Tomatoes ) This formula has thrown up plenty of strange choices, and the list is quite unlike any other ranking of the best movies of all time.

One big surprise is that the 1997 crime thriller L.A. Confidential is in the top spot, rather than one of the usual candidates such as Casablanca, The Godfather or Seven Samurai. Some classics aren't even on the Rotten Tomatoes list . Vertigo, Titanic and The Shawshank Redemption are all missing, showing how unusual the Rotten Tomatoes methodology is. These are far from the only oddities that have come from the controversial ranking.

The 55 Best Movies Of All Time

Screen Rant breaks down the best movies of all time, from old classics to modern masterpieces across multiple genres of cinema.

Citizen Kane Is Ranked At Number 33

Orson welles' masterpiece has topped plenty of other lists of the greatest films ever.

Orson Welles' masterpiece Citizen Kane appears on practically every "best movies ever" list , and it frequently pops up near the top of these lists. The Rotten Tomatoes list has Citizen Kane sitting in the number 33 spot, which is still impressive, but it's much lower than it has appeared in many other lists and polls. For a film which so often cracks the top five, this is a strange anomaly.

Citizen Kane was ranked number one in the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list, and it also claimed top spot in the BFI's Sight & Sound poll five times in a row over the course of 40 years.

Citizen Kane and Casablanca are often the heavyweight contenders for the title of "best movie ever". Rotten Tomatoes has Casablanca in third place. Citizen Kane was ranked number one in the AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies list, and it also claimed top spot in the BFI's Sight & Sound poll five times in a row over the course of 40 years. Its Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 90% is low enough to drag it down beneath movies like Spotlight, How to Train Your Dragon and Selma.

4 Movies From 2023 Are Ranked Higher Than Oppenheimer

Christopher nolan's oscar-winner is at number 199.

Although Christopher Nolan's biopic Oppenheimer won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the Rotten Tomatoes list suggests that 2023 produced four movies that would have been more worthy winners. The highest-rated movie from last year is The Holdovers , which sits at number 36. Also ranked higher than Oppenheimer are Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and John Wick: Chapter 4.

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse and John Wick: Chapter 4 all place higher than the Best Picture winner.

While these are all great movies, it's a little surprising that they outrank Oppenheimer , which is placed at number 199. The Rotten Tomatoes system takes audience opinion into account, so crowd-pleasing blockbusters tend to do well, even if they aren't the types of films which are geared toward awards-season success. This explains how movies from the Mission: Impossible and John Wick franchises place so highly.

7 Of The Last 10 Best Picture Winners Are Absent

Oppenheimer is a rare exception.

Although Oppenheimer 's relatively low ranking is a surprise, many Best Picture winners are completely absent from the list. The only three Best Picture winners from the last decade on the Rotten Tomatoes top 300 are Oppenheimer, Parasite and Spotlight. Other winners like Birdman, Moonlight and The Shape of Water were more popular with critics than they were with regular moviegoers.

The only three Best Picture winners from the last decade on the Rotten Tomatoes top 300 are Oppenheimer, Parasite and Spotlight.

Best Picture winners aren't always popular with audiences , and the Rotten Tomatoes list favors movies which have a broad appeal to accompany their critical success. This explains why a lighthearted and creative family comedy like Paddington 2 makes the list over a dark and unusual romance like The Shape of Water, although both movies were released in 2017. The Academy doesn't take audience opinions into consideration.

The Two Towers Is 161 Places Higher Than The Next Best Lord Of The Rings Movie

Peter jackson's three lord of the rings movies are usually on an equal footing.

Peter Jackson's brilliant Lord of the Rings trilogy is often regarded as one of the finest film series of all time, and it's not uncommon for all three movies to appear in lists similar to the Rotten Tomatoes top 300. For example, all three movies are in the top 12 of IMDb's Top 250 Movies . For some reason, the Rotten Tomatoes has them much more spread out, with The Two Towers the only Lord of the Rings movie in the top 100.

The Fellowship of the Ring is ranked at number 201 and The Return of the King is at number 205. It makes sense that these movies are practically level with one another, but it's strange that The Two Towers is 161 places higher up.

The Fellowship of the Ring is ranked at number 201 and The Return of the King is at number 205. It makes sense that these movies are practically level with one another, but it's strange that The Two Towers is 161 places higher up. Although The Return of the King is the one which was showered with awards, it has the lowest audience score of the trilogy, possibly due to the common criticism that the ending drags on for too long.

Stanley Kubrick Has Just 1 Movie In The Top 100

Dr. straneglove is kubrick's only movie anywhere near the top of the list.

Any director would be honored to have one of their movies in the top 100, but Stanley Kubrick's body of work includes multiple movies which are considered among the best of all time. His Cold War comedy Dr. Strangelove is at spot number 38, just below Inside Out, but his next highest-rated movie is all the way down at number 161, with Paths of Glory. The Killing is his only other movie to creep into the top 300, at number 297.

Kubrick's admirers may have expected to see A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Barry Lyndon or 2001: A Space Odyssey in the top 300.

Dr. Strangelove deserves its place, but Kubrick's admirers may have expected to see A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Barry Lyndon or 2001: A Space Odyssey alongside it. These movies all have high Rotten Tomatoes scores with critics and audiences, but they aren't enough. Other legendary directors have a little more luck on the Rotten Tomatoes list. Alfred Hitchcock has four movies in the top 100, while Francis Ford Coppola has three.

Daniel Day-Lewis Has Just 1 Movie On The List

My left foot is on the list, but lincoln, there will be blood and phantom thread are not.

Daniel Day-Lewis has won three Oscars, four BAFTAs, and countless other accolades. In a career spanning almost 50 years, he developed a reputation as one of the greatest dramatic actors of all time, and his movies were routinely showered with praise from critics. This outstanding success doesn't translate onto the Rotten Tomatoes list, however, as only My Left Foot makes the cut.

There Will Be Blood, In the Name of the Father and Lincoln are all hugely popular with critics and audiences alike, but they clearly aren't quite popular enough.

Many more of Daniel Day-Lewis' best movies wouldn't have looked out of place on the list. There Will Be Blood, In the Name of the Father and Lincoln are all hugely popular with critics and audiences alike, but they clearly aren't quite popular enough. Day-Lewis' presence in a movie is all but a guarantee of quality, but he may not have the kind of general appeal that other actors do, since he focused on standalone dramatic works rather than splashy blockbusters or comedies.

There Are Some Sci-Fi Classics Missing From The List

Many of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time are nowhere to be seen.

Some genres appear more frequently than others on the Rotten Tomatoes list . Horror classics don't always receive glowing critical reviews, and comedy movies are more subjective, so it's no surprise that the methodology behind the list made it hard for either of these genres. The lack of some sci-fi classics is a little more surprising, since sci-fi can often please critics just as much as regular movie fans.

Even Everything Everywhere All at Once, which might have benefited from its recent popularity, doesn't crack the top 300.

Many of the best sci-fi movies of all time are absent from the list, despite their impressive Rotten Tomatoes scores. The Matrix, Jurassic Park and Blade Runner all have great scores, but they aren't quite high enough to make it on to the list. Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is often cited as the pinnacle of the sci-fi genre, but it is also absent. Even Everything Everywhere All at Once, which might have benefited from its recent popularity, doesn't crack the top 300.

There Are No Movies From 2005

2005 is strangely under-represented.

For some reason, 2005 is the only year within the last 40 that doesn't contribute a single movie to the list . Even the lean pandemic years are able to add one or two movies. Recency bias seems to be an issue with the Rotten Tomatoes list, as the 21st century is disproportionately represented, but 2005 is the one year that doesn't benefit from this phenomenon, despite delivering a few films now considered classics.

Brokeback Mountain, V for Vendetta and Sin City are just three candidates that would have made sense on any best movies of all time list, but they don't have high enough Rotten Tomatoes ratings to qualify.

Brokeback Mountain, V for Vendetta and Sin City are just three candidates that would have made sense on any best movies of all time list, but they don't have high enough Rotten Tomatoes ratings to qualify. Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was probably closer to being included, as it has a 95% critical score, but its 79% audience score may have held it back.

Pixar Has 6 Movies Ranked Higher Than Any Disney Animation

Every toy story movie is on the list.

One thing that stands out from a cursory glance over the list is the abundance of Pixar movies. Toy Story 2 is the studio's highest-ranked movie in the number 8 spot. This also makes it the highest-ranked animated movie of any kind. Before Disney Animation makes its way on to the list at number 32 with Zootopia, Pixar also has Toy Story, Up, Finding Nemo, Toy Story 3 and Coco.

Before Disney Animation makes its way on to the list at number 32 with Zootopia, Pixar also has Toy Story, Up, Finding Nemo, Toy Story 3 and Coco.

Many of Pixar's best movies pop up throughout the list, including Soul, Ratatouille and Monsters, Inc. All four of Pixar's Toy Story movies, not including the spinoff Lightyear, hold a place in the top 50 , which makes it the most successful franchise by far. Disney Animation movies simply can't compete. While there are a few inclusions, like Moana and Aladdin, these fall further toward the bottom of the list.

Curtis Hanson's Only Movie In The Top 300 Is In The Top Spot

L.a. confidential is the list's big surprise.

One of the most obvious surprises of the list is that L.A. Confidential sits at number one . The 1997 retro thriller is undoubtedly a great movie, but it still raised plenty of eyebrows when it beat out classics like Casablanca and The Godfather. What's even more surprising is that L.A. Confidential is Curtis Hanson's only film in Rotten Tomatoes' top 300, while other directors have plenty of entries.

Hanson also wrote and produced the neo-noir crime drama, based on the novel by James Ellroy.

Curtis Hanson's other movies include 8 Mile and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle . None of them have achieved the same level of critical acclaim as L.A. Confidential. Hanson also wrote and produced the neo-noir crime drama, based on the novel by James Ellroy. For whatever reason, he seems to have clicked with the project, making it by far his most critically successful movie.