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Story revolves about young Indian chef who emigrates to France and becomes famous. The love story is a secondary plot line. Helen Mirren plays a French restauranteur with her usual Oscar quality panache.I would have preferred if the film ended about 30 minutes earlier than it does.

This is a feel good movie. Chevy Chase plays a has been Hollywood talent agent who is probably supposed to be somewhat older than he actually is. Richard Dreyfus plays a comedian who is considerably older than he actually is. Dreyfus is very convincing and his character is like able and suave. The jokes we get to hear him say are only mildly funny. The director made a good decision to show how funny he is by focusing on audience laughter instead of what the comedian is saying. I didn't like the makeup on Dreyfus. Either he was made up to look like he had terrible skin problems or he actually has the skin problems and the makeup staff couldn't hide it. An actress I didn't know, Kate Micucci, played Chase's adult daughter. She has one of those "doe-eyed" faces that can be cute and comical as she wishes. It is a small role but I thought she did it really well.

"Killing Eve" is based on the Villanelle novellas by Luke Jennings. Villanelle (Jodie Comer) is a beautiful woman who works as assassin for a secret organization. She has a decidedly twisted personality. She has no more reluctance to killing a person than to killing a mosquito. She does mean things for fun. She is very talented assassin. And she seems (to me) possibly to have multiple personalties. Jodie Comer does a remarkable instance transformations from one to the other. Sandra Oh has an Emmy nomination for her part as Eve, a British intelligence analyst who is fascinated by the clues and personality quirks of this assassin. Shed ends up almost accidentally as a field agent pursuing Villanelle, who in turn becomes fascinated with Eve. But the Emmys neglected to nominate Jodie Comer. Sandra Oh gives a remarkable performance in the kind of role she never expected to get because typically she is offered only ethnic roles. Still, I think Jodie Comer's performance as the title character of the books on which the series is based is at least as award worthy.