Trần Anh Hùng: Behind the delectable scenes with the "Taste of Things" director
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True, the celebrated filmmaker's seventh feature is a gorgeous and smoldering 19th century French romantic drama. But the film doubles as one of the most intimate, sensuous studies of a kitchen to be captured on celluloid. Hùng, who won best director at Cannes, pulls back the curtain this week with executive producer Jane Black. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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