The Taste of Others
Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy "Berenice" in order to see his niece play a bit part. He is taken with the play's strangely familiar-looking leading lady Clara Devaux. During the course of the show, Castella soon remembers that he once hired and then promptly fired the actress as an English language tutor. He immediately goes out and signs up for language lessons. Thinking that he is nothing but an ill-tempered philistine with bad taste, Clara rejects him until Castella charms her off her feet.
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Cast
15 people
Agnès Jaoui
Manie
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Jean-Pierre Bacri
Jean-Charles Castella
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Didier
Anne Alvaro
Clara Devaux
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Alain Chabat
Bruno Deschamps
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Gérard Lanvin
Franck Moreno
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Christiane Millet
Angélique
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Wladimir Yordanoff
Antoine
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Brigitte Catillon
Béatrice Castella
Known for
Black Butterflies
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Raphaël Defour
Benoît
Also in
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Anne Le Ny
Valérie
Known for
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Weber
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Sam Karmann
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Agnès Jaoui Director · Jean-Pierre Bacri Screenplay Jean-Charles Jarrel Composer
Worldwide gross $24M · Budget $10M · First release March 1, 2000
Box office
Budget
$10,200,000
Worldwide gross
$23,600,000
Gross vs. budget
2.3×
Production
Les Films A4
Production
France 2 Cinéma
Production
Canal+
Production
StudioCanal
Studio
France
Produced in
Languages
Original title
Le Goût des autres
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · March 1, 2000
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Brazil
January 11, 2022 · Physical · Em São Paulo
Czechia
March 22, 2001 · Theatrical
France
September 12, 2025 · TV · France•5
Germany
November 9, 2000 · Theatrical
Greece
December 8, 2000 · Theatrical
South Korea
July 14, 2001 · Theatrical
United Kingdom
November 19, 2001 · Physical · DVD
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