Forget about Big Night. Forget about Mystic Pizza. Forget, even, numerous barbecue documentaries.Check out Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? Here, dear readers, is the food movie to end all food movies (well, except that numerous food movies have been produced since 1978, when this movie was made. But whatever.).
Anyway, the title basically tells you what the plot is, but it's got one foot in farce and another squarely planted in the Agatha Christie backlist (think And Then There Were None meets Delicatessen by way of the Pink Panther series).
Need more? It's got Jaqueline Bisset. Admittedly, it's long past her Bullitt days, but she's still great. I'll take her in a food movie anyday. At least until the uber-graceful Julianne Moore makes a food movie.

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5-26-2006 @11:23PM Nicole Fitzhugh said... "It's a bombe!" I'm so glad to know that someone else shares my love for this movie, which my parents took me to see in the theater, when I was seven, and I still treasure it!
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5-27-2006 @5:36AM Anne Metz said... Nicole, does it come as a surprise that either of us have *excellent* taste?
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5-27-2006 @9:48AM kevin said... Sadly, Netflix doesn't have it.
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5-27-2006 @10:08AM ann lemons said... Absolutely the most fun of any food movie, and my personal favorite. For years, its soundtrack was the background music as I cooked for dinner parties. I thought I was the only one who remembered it!
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5-28-2006 @1:20AM Lovee Howell said... I love this movie. I just watched it this afternoon. I bought a copy on eBay, it has not been released on DVD.
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