L'Aile ou la Cuisse
Let's enjoy this Easter season, with its many culinary traditions, to explore a tempting style of cinema: films that honor victuals, those who prepare them and those who devour them. Gourmet and luscious - in restaurants or in private, food is a jubilant playground for cinema. Unifying, outrageous, virtuoso or explosive, the scenes of meals and food offer the perfect frame to parody or shake up human relations.
A very influential food critic (De Funès) discovers the disgusting secrets of industrial food from his long-time enemy, Jacques Tricatel.
Claude Zidi
Claude Zidi is a French director, screenwriter and producer. He graduated in 1955 from the Technical School of Photography and Cinematography and began his career as an assistant operator, then as a cameraman and director of photography. In 1970, he became a director and screenwriter, directing Les Charlots, in four films that were to become great successes: Les Bidasses en folie, Les Fous du stade, Le Grand Bazar and Les Bidasses s'en vont en guerre. Like Gérard Oury, Francis Veber and Jean-Marie Poiré, he is one of the most prolific directors of popular comedy films from the 1970s to 2000, with comedies such as La Moutarde me monte au nez, L'Aile ou la Cuisse, L'Animal, La *.Zizanie, Les Sous-doués, Inspecteur la Bavure, Banzaï, Les Ripoux and Astérix et Obélix contre César. During his 30-year career, Claude Zidi has directed the greatest actors of French cinema, such as Pierre Richard, Louis de Funès, Coluche, Julien Guiomar, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Thierry Lhermitte, Patrick Bruel, Gérard Depardieu and many others.
His films have attracted tens of millions of viewers in Europe, Asia, South America and Africa. Although not very appreciated by the critics, he received the recognition of the profession in 1985 with the César for best director and best film for *Les Ripoux
