“The tasting”, a movie to inform his demons over a drink – rts.ch

“The Tasting” is a romantic comedy tailored from the eponymous play written by Ivan Calbérac in 2019. The identical yr, she obtained the Molière for finest comedy. That is the director’s third play tailored for the cinema.

The story tells of the assembly between Jacques (Bernard Campan) and Hortense (Isabelle Carré). Jacques is a wine service provider, whereas Hortense is a midwife. The 2 bachelors, who every have a heavy historical past, meet throughout a tasting workshop in Jacques’ wine cellar.

“The play was so profitable that it made me wish to adapt it to the cinema, explains director Ivan Calbérac to RTS. We weren’t capable of tour with the play. This movie is due to this fact a approach to take this story in every single place we could not go.”

>> To observe: the trailer for the movie “The Tasting”

A piece of adaptation

“The fictional universe of the theater isn’t the identical as that of a movie, continues Ivan Calbérac. If you end up a theater spectator, you enter right into a kind of tacit contract with the work, that’s that we select to imagine in it like youngsters who’re advised a narrative. However within the cinema, the expectation of credibility is completely different. We wish and have to imagine in it. Typically, we go away a room of cinema by saying ‘I didn’t imagine it’. The movie required a unique, extra exact psychological follow-up of the characters”.

One other distinction with the play, the movie follows Hortense’s perspective. The spectators then uncover his life outdoors of his visits to Jacques’ wine cellar.

The symbolism of wine

The primary topic of the movie, wine is each a struggling, hurting those that drink it, and a hyperlink between the 2 important protagonists. “I feel it is a movie concerning the bond and the right way to restore it when it has been degraded. The love story between Jacques and Hortense isn’t apparent, as a result of it is a story of affection of the final probability. At twenty, we throw ourselves into love tales with out pondering. However when now we have lived a number of of them, that we discover ourselves alone once more and that we don’t want to stay it, we worry to endure once more. Wine breaks the ice.”

Wine tasting is a sensory expertise, but it surely additionally has a burlesque aspect. Once you drink an excessive amount of, you say belongings you should not or would not dare to say.

Ivan Calbérac additionally sees similarities between wine making and cinema. “Every bottle of wine tells a narrative. It’s the fruit of lengthy work by completely different individuals, of a complete journey. Nevertheless, it’s drunk comparatively rapidly. The identical goes for a movie: it’s seen rapidly in comparison with the lengthy work that preceded its creation.

Lastly, the script was reviewed by professionals within the wine-related trades. The director explains: “I’m not an skilled, however I inquired and acquired assist.” He additionally went to fulfill winegrowers. “Their job and its issue touched me lots. In a winery in Tonnerre, in Chablis, an operator advised us concerning the vagaries of the climate and the gradual maturation of a wine. I appreciated these conferences”, concludes Ivan Caldérac .

Interview by Pierre Philippe Cadert

Internet adaptation: Myriam Semaani

_{“The tasting”, to be seen at the moment in French-speaking rooms.}