Kitchen Brigade

Showings

Mary D. Fisher Theatre Sat, Feb 4, 2023 4:00 PM
Mary D. Fisher Theatre Sun, Feb 5, 2023 4:00 PM
Mary D. Fisher Theatre Mon, Feb 6, 2023 7:00 PM
Mary D. Fisher Theatre Tue, Feb 7, 2023 4:00 PM
Mary D. Fisher Theatre Wed, Feb 8, 2023 7:00 PM
Mary D. Fisher Theatre Thu, Feb 9, 2023 7:00 PM
Film Info
Event Type:Narrative Feature
Release Year:2022
Run Time:97 minutes
Production Country:France
Original Language:French
Subtitles:English
Trailer:https://youtu.be/kAusDGslwyo
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Louis-Julien Petit
Cast:Audrey Lamy
François Cluzet
Chantal Neuwirth

Description

Cathy Marie (Audrey Lamy), an imperious sous chef, wants to open a restaurant. With financial difficulties, Cathy accepts a job at a shelter for young migrants. At first she hates the job then her passion for cuisine starts to change children's lives.


It takes the kindness and vulnerability of the young people to get her off her high horse.


Forced out of necessity to take a job as the hostel’s live-in cook, Cathy Marie insists on maintaining the standards of a high-end establishment, which means she’ll need help. She gets it in the form of the hostel’s residents: young men with little to no cooking skills who come primarily from Africa and Southeast Asia.


Cue the training process, with Cathy Marie barking orders like a coach in a sports movie, and some minor tensions with an angsty teenager who turns out to be a softy. Learning the tenets of French cuisine works as a metaphor for assimilation into French society, and the charismatic kids assimilate with glee.


The real problem, however, is that the boys will be turned out of the country when they turn 18 unless they secure a way to stay, like a youth soccer contract or enrollment in a vocational school. That’s not so easy, it turns out, which galvanizes Cathy Marie into action.