Anh Hung Tran

Member of jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1996

[press conference for El sabor de la vida (2023) at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival] I haven't really adapted the book - it's more a case of drawing very free inspiration from it. In the book there's some magnificent pages on the art of cooking and food. I've told a story which actually precedes the book; it's a tale of love between Eugénie and Dodin. I wanted to strike a balance in my film between these two things. I wanted to depict a parallel story where you also focus a lot on the art of cooking.