The Big Restaurant
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.
Monsieur Septime, owner of a top Parisian restaurant, must deal with a series of unforeseen events while preparing a gala dinner for a foreign head of state.
Between an inquisitive tax inspector, a group of revolutionaries who have come to kidnap the head of state, and bumbling waiters, Septime must keep his cool to save the evening and his reputation. With the characteristic humor of Louis de Funès, the film offers a satirical vision of the world of gastronomy and Parisian high society.
Jacques Besnard
Jacques Besnard was the first assistant to director André Hunebelle. Besnard worked alongside Hunebelle on movies such as: Les Mystères de Paris, Banco à Bangkok, and OSS 117. It was during this time that Besnard met actor Louis de Funès when they worked together on Fantômas.
