“The Tasting” by Ivan Calbérac is an adaptation of his eponymous play. The director exploited the off-screen of the play to get out of the unique setting, develop the secondary characters, build a more complex plot…
The story is that of Jacques, divorced from the gruff type, who alone runs a small wine cellar, on the verge of bankruptcy. Hortense, involved in the association and determined not to end up an old maid, enters her shop one day and decides to sign up for a tasting workshop…
For these 2 flayed beings, wine does not have the same role. For Hortense, the victim of a strict, coercive, even toxic upbringing, wine allows her to let go, to let her impulses express themselves, to disinhibit herself. For Jacques, it is rather a kind of thought to escape, forget and cut himself off from the part that suffers in him. But the wine will be their common point, even becoming a language between these two great wounded of life.
For the distribution, Ivan Calbérac kept the same as for the original piece, namely Isabelle Carré and Bernard Campan.