This romantic, slightly comic film is about food, change, and foreigners. An Indian family opens a restaurant in a small town in France, and everyone gets a lesson in acceptance. Schmaltzy, optimistic, yes, but I sure needed something sugar-coated when I watched this in January 2021. The only thing that bothered me about the movie is that the major xenophobic villager is sent packing after he sets the competing restaurant on fire. As he speeds off on his motorcycle, I wondered where he was going. To join the National Front perhaps? Or some neo-Nazi group? Hate is not that easily eliminated.
Review of The Hundred-Foot Journey
The Hundred-Foot Journey
(2014)
France, Food, & Helen Mirren--Delicious
9 January 2021
Warning: Spoilers