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A Chef in Love (1996)

Directed by Nana Jorjadze · 100 min · Drama, Comedy, Romance

17.3 TOPICAL score · #4,797 of 6,776 films

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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.

A Chef in Love (1996, directed by Nana Jorjadze) has a TOPICAL score of 17.3 - ranked 4,797 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on awards and critics, and lowest on lasting engagement. It won 0 awards from 1 nomination. Critics: 64% on Rotten Tomatoes · 6.6/10 critics' average. Audiences: TMDB 4.9/10 (17 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 15 languages.

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Critics40
Audience-
Awards62
Historical impact16
Lasting engagement8
Cast-
Legacy & cult status-

Starring: Pierre Richard, Micheline Presle, Nino Kirtadze, Jean-Yves Gautier

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