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Wick's Review
Summary - Very Good 3.5
The Hundred-Foot Journey is a feel-good, foodie movie starring Helen Mirren set in provincial France. Mature date-night movie choices get no safer. Predictable as a brasserie menu, it’s equivalently satisfying.
Acting - Great 4.0
Helen Mirren stars as an impeccably dressed proprietor of a Michelin-starred French Provincial restaurant. Dame Mirren has no trouble with her French accent, at least to my American ears, which is all producers Oprah Winfrey & Steven Spielberg care about. Mirren is a delight in a role that only she and Meryl Streep could pull off, at least to open this movie in America. She’s the ultimate Well Put Together Woman.
- Om Puri is destined to be her “almost boyfriend”, when he’s not fulminating with his large and attractive Indian family.
- Manish Dayal endearingly plays his naturally talented chef of a son
- Amit Shah, Farzana Dua Elahe, Dillon Mitra and Aria Pandya play the rest of the family
- Juhi Chawla plays their sainted Mama
- Charlotte Le Bon fetchingly essays a pretty French lass, who is also an ambitious sous chef
- Michel Blanc plays a small town Mayor who never misses an opportunity to eat, with Shuna Lemoine as his disapproving Wife
- Clément Sibony as a hot-headed French chef named Jean-Pierre
Male Stars - Great 4.0
Female Stars - Perfect 5.0
Female Costars - Very Good 3.5
Male Costars - Very Good 3.5
Film - Very Good 3.5
Lasse Hallström’s directing career has careened irretrievably into a cutely commercial comfort zone the past decade or so, but he hasn’t lost his rich visual appreciation for rural settings. He’s especially adept with the sun, the moon and the seasons. Summer evenings, winter mornings and other seasonal setting changes add richness to his films, The Hundred-Foot Journey being no exception.