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Effectivement, le film n'est pas désagréable, mais j'avais largement préféré le bouquin dont il est tiré. Le roman se décompose en 3 parties: la vie en Inde avant que la famille d'Hassan ne doive fuir, le passage dans le village du Jura, et la carrière d'Hassan à Paris (où il a son propre restaurant étoilé, et la fin diffère pas mal de celle du film). Je comprends que le film ait choisi de se concentrer sur la partie centrale, mais moi, ce que j'avais préféré, c'était le début, vachement plus réaliste - dramatique, même - avec une grande importance accordée à la cuisine indienne, au concept de transmission et à la sensualité de la cuisine.

Je partage totalement ton analyse, et tu exprimes parfaitement ce qui m'avait "chifonnée" sans pouvoir mettre le doigt dessus! Le fait que le réalisateur ne prenne pas totalement le parti de la fable porte préjudice à l'histoire. On s'émerveille, puis on s'agace du manque de réalisme... Dommage en effet, car j'ai passé un bon moment, tout en regrettant que l'idée initiale ne soit pas mieux exploitée.

Bah, dans mon trou perdu, ne l'ai pas vu, mais je vous crois ;) Les scénaristes qui sont par quinzaine ou vingtaine par films aux US auront sans doute été orientés plus sur une histoire d'amour que culinaire.

Mais euh !... Les titres de films sont rarement choisis par les adaptateurs ^^ C’est le résultat de décisions qui se font à un niveau bien plus haut, mélange souvent de marketing et de commerce. Mais je suis d’accord que le titre français est plat comme tout. J’adore Charlotte Le Bon mais je crois que je vais faire l’impasse sur ce film, s’il n’y a pas un minimum de réalisme. Et en nourriture indienne, rester sur The Lunchbox .

C'est bien pour ça que je critique le "traducteur du titre", qui qu'il soit ! :-)

Encore un film où je vais avoir faim ;-)

Comme tu dis, c'est un conte: on y montre une famille de restaurateurs indiens imaginée dans une France imaginaire et des gastronomies qui correspondent davantage à une vision figée de la cuisine (passéiste par moments, idéalisée à d'autres) qu'à la réalité. On y oppose une cuisine indienne "modeste" à la "grande" cuisine française, en concordance avec les horizons d'attente (et les préjugés) du spectateur profane. J'aurais aimé qu'on exploite davantage les cuisines elles-mêmes, le fait qu'au marché, les deux restaurateurs convoitent les mêmes produits pour réaliser des plats très différents. Au sens figuré, c'est peut-être à cela que réfère le voyage de 100 pas, au fait que des gastronomies éloignées sous plusieurs aspects peuvent trouver un terrain d'entente, ce qui nous mène ici à la cuisine moléculaire. J'ai somme toute passé un agréable moment devant ce film, mais peut-être devrais-je lire le livre?

Avec le commentaire d'Armalite ci-dessus, dont je respecte toujours l'avis littéraire, ce livre s'est effectivement ajouté à ma liste à lire !

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Director Lasse Hallström does lovely work and Helen Mirren is always worth watching, but The Hundred-Foot Journey travels predictable ground already covered by countless feel-good dramedies.

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“The Hundred-Foot Journey” is a film that demands that you take it seriously. With its feel-good themes of multicultural understanding, it is about Something Important. It even comes with the stamp of approval from titanic tastemakers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg , who both serve as producers. What more convincing could you possibly need?

There’s something familiar about the treacly and sanctimonious way this film is being packaged. It reeks of late-‘90s/early ‘00s Miramax fare: films with tasteful yet ubiquitous ad campaigns and unabashed Oscar aspirations which suggested that seeing them (and, more importantly, voting for them) would make you a better person. Films like “The Cider House Rules,” “Chocolat” and “The Shipping News.” Films by Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom.

Hallstrom just happens to be the director here, as well, and the similarities to “Chocolat” are inescapable. Stop me if think you’ve heard this one before: A family moves into a quaint but closed-minded French village and shakes things up with an enticing array of culinary delicacies. This new enterprise happens to sit across the street from a conservative and revered building that’s a town treasure. But the food in question isn’t a bon bon this time—rather, the movie is the bon bon itself.

But despite being handsomely crafted, well acted and even sufficiently enjoyable, “The Hundred-Foot Journey” is also conventional and predictable. And for a film that’s all about opening up your senses and sampling spicy, exotic tastes, this comic drama is entirely too safe and even a little bland.

What livens things up, though, is the interplay between Helen Mirren and Om Puri as battling restaurant owners operating across the street from each other—100 feet away from each other, to be exact, a short but fraught trip that various characters take for various reasons. Watching these veteran actors stoop to sabotage each other provides a consistent source of laughs. She’s all sharp angles, piercing looks and biting quips; he’s all round joviality, boisterous blasts and warmhearted optimism. The contrast between the British Oscar-winner and the Indian acting legend offers the only tension in this otherwise soft and gooey dish—that is, until the film goes all soft and gooey, too.

Mirren stars as Madame Mallory, owner of Le Saule Pleurer (The Weeping Willow), an elegant and expensive French restaurant that’s the winner of a prestigious Michelin star. But one star isn’t enough for the coldly driven Mme. Mallory—she wants another, and then another.

But her bloodless quest for gourmet grandeur is interrupted by the arrival across the street of an Indian family: the Kadams, who’ve been wandering around Europe ever since their beloved restaurant back home burned down during political rioting. When the brakes on their car malfunction on a treacherous stretch of spectacular countryside, Papa (Puri) insists it’s a sign from his late wife and decides to open a new eatery in the charming town at the bottom of the hill.

Never mind that one of the most celebrated restaurants in all of France is sitting right across the street from the empty building he rents. Never mind that they are in an insular part of the country where the residents probably don’t even know what Indian cuisine is, much less like it, as his children point out. He has faith in his food—and in his son, Hassan ( Manish Dayal ), a brilliant, young chef.

Just as Papa and Mme. Mallory strike up a sparky rivalry, Hassan enjoys a flirtatious relationship with French sous chef Marguerite ( Charlotte Le Bon , who played an early model and muse in the recent “Yves Saint Laurent” biopic). The script from Steven Wright (who also wrote the far trickier “ Locke ” from earlier this year, as well as “ Dirty Pretty Things ” and “ Eastern Promises ”) is full of such tidy parallels, as well as trite and overly simplistic proclamations about how food inspires memories. Dayal and Le Bon do look lovely together, though, and share a light, enjoyable chemistry.

Then again, it all looks lovely—both the French and Indian dishes as well as the lush, rolling surroundings, which we see through all four seasons; the work of cinematographer Linus Sandgren , who recently shot “American Hustle.” This sweetly pleasing combination of ingredients would have been perfectly suitable if the film didn’t take a wild and needless detour in the third act. That’s when it becomes an even less interesting movie than it already was, in spite of its loftier aspirations.

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Among my favorites is Gabriel Axel’s ‘ Babette’s Feast ’ (1987), even though the movie is situated in a remote corner of 19 th century Denmark and based on a story by Isak Dinesen . 

Babette Hersant, a French political refugee, is housekeeper to the devout daughters of the village Lutheran minister. After winning the lottery, Babette decides to spend her money cooking the sisters and their friends an exotic and no holds barred French meal , rich with sensual pleasure. What we learn through the course of the film is that Babette was a well-known chef in Paris at the time of the 1871 Paris Commune . We also realize food’s transformative, spiritual, power and grace.

So, when Richard C. Morais ’ popular first novel ‘ The Hundred-Foot Journey ’ emerged, I was predictably smitten.

Indian Cuisine à la Française

The book was on my list of must-reads, and when the movie was released this summer I was determined to go, despite some unfavorable reviews. The movie is directed by Sweden’s Lasse Hallström (of ‘ Chocolat ’ fame), and stars Dame Helen Mirren as Madame Mallory. The film is a rich and sensual visual treat, where Morais’ restaurant scenes come to glorious life.

‘The Hundred-Foot Journey’ is a fairy tale, where love and good fellowship conquer all, be it competition in the kitchen or cultural chauvinism – even racism. For those of you unfamiliar with the plot, the book is about a Muslim family from Mumbai. The family immigrates first to London, and then to an Alpine village in France. There the clan opens an Indian restaurant 100 feet from Le Saule Pleureur (The Weeping Willow), a one-star Michelin restaurant, run by Madame Mallory.

Hassan, one of the sons (played by Indian-American Manish Dayal), is a supremely gifted cook. His Indian dishes are inspired; considered to be food of the gods. However, he has his heart set on classic French cuisine and ultimately crosses the road to become an apprentice in Madame Mallory’s establishment. 

Racial tensions within France

Hassan’s family emigrates from Mumbai because Hindu extremists have burned their restaurant, killing Hassan’s mother in the process. In France, there is a similar backlash from Madame Mallory who yells at Hassan’s father, “Get out of my country, you…you dirty foreigner.” But in the book the restaurant fire that ensues is an accident, not the result of a racially-motivated firebombing, as is the case in the film.

Another unfortunate cinematic tweak of the book surrounds the reception the townspeople give Maison Mumbai. In the film, they patronize the restaurant reluctantly. In the book, there seems to me no generalized xenophobia on the part of the French. Quite the contrary; they are receptive and supportive.

Hassan eventually ‘makes it’ in Paris thanks to the patronage of French investors and his own good sense. (In the book, there is little suggestion of heavy drinking as a way to blot out one’s problems surrounding identity.) His restaurant, Le Chien Méchant, earns three stars, making him the first minority chef in France to be given this honor.

Do read the book because it provides a more insightful treatment of ethnic and religious hatred, which the film unfortunately sidesteps. In addition, one of the best parts of the novel, to my mind, describes the economic challenges and pressures surrounding restaurant management in contemporary France.

Have you seen the movie, or read the book? Maybe both? Do you think a book is usually better than its film version?  Join the conversation below! 

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I haven’t heard any bad reviews Ronnie, and you make the movie sound great!! I’ll put it on my ‘to-watch’ list. 🙂

Dear Ellen, Thanks for your comment. The film did not get a glowing review from the New York Times’ A.O. Scott, to put it mildly. See: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/movies/in-the-hundred-foot-journey-kitchen-wars-break-out.html?_r=0 And here’s one from The Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/movies/the-hundred-foot-journey-movie-review-dinner-if-not-the-viewer-is-served/2014/08/06/b18e3e20-1985-11e4-85b6-c1451e622637_story.html I love the imagery in the film. But the book, to my mind, is better. That said, I agree with A.O. Scott that Babette’s Feast and even Ratatouille are more satisfying. Let me know what you think! R

Oh dear! The New York Times one is particularly…particular. Very descriptive on the details, I especially found the comment about women being the nurturers rather than possessors of great talent and skill incredibly interesting, I’ve thought that before about films and books. Amusing reads but perhaps a little harsh?! It sounds like this film is a bit of a simplified version of the novel…and doesn’t delve very deeply into the big issues. It still looks like a beautiful film, aesthetically if not anything else, and I bet it has some good food scenes, which I’m always a fan of!

I saw the trailer a while ago and still really want to see it! I didn’t know it was orginally a book – might have to give that a go two!

I’m happy to watch it in ignorant bliss of the reviews and use my own brain to fill in any ‘gaps’ in the story – which in most Hollywood movies are plentiful – depending on if my brain at the time wants fluff and food to watch or something deeper:)

I also love movies about cooking and kitchens – I just got a hold of ‘Le Chef’ so that’s next on my ‘to watch’ list, but after that, I’m watching this one 🙂

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The Hundred-Foot Journey

• The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory's Michelin-starred eatery.
• The family of talented cook, Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal), has a life filled with both culinary delights and profound loss. Drifting through Europe after fleeing political violence in India that killed the family restaurant business and their mother, the Kadams arrive in France. Once there, a chance auto accident and the kindness of a young woman, Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon), in the village of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val inspires Papa Kadam (Om Puri) to set up a Indian restaurant there. Unfortunately, this puts the Kadams in direct competition with the snobbish Madame Mallory's acclaimed haute cuisine establishment across the street where Marguerite also works as a sous-chef. The resulting rivalry eventually escalates in personal intensity until it goes too far. In response, there is a bridging of sides initiated by Hassan, Marguerite, and Madame Mallory (Dame Helen Mirren), both professional and personal, that encourages an understanding that will change both sides forever. — Kenneth Chisholm ([email protected])
• The Kadam family after leaving India due to a fatal tragedy finally settle in a small town in southern France. They set up a traditional family run Indian restaurant just like they had always planned but opposite a competitive French restaurant. This initial rivalry creates unexpected twists for the better and for the worse in the lives of both the Kadam family and Madame Mallory (Dame Helen Mirren), the owner of the Michelin star restaurant a hundred feet away. — Viir khubchandani
• Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal), the oldest of five siblings, was taught how to cook, but more importantly truly taste and love food, by his mother. Their entire family works together in their open air eatery in Mumbai. In his role, Hassan considers himself a cook and not a chef as he was never professionally trained. Following the tragic death of Hassan's mother, his well-off but frugal Papa Kadam (Om Puri) decides to pack up the family and move to Europe to open a restaurant, the business to keep to his wife's memory in their love of South Asian cuisine. After an initial business misstep in London, Papa believes it is fate that their van breaks down just outside of the French town of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, that they meet a local foodie, a young woman named Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon), who introduces them to the abundance of fresh locally sourced produce, seafood and meats, and that there is an abandoned restaurant property on the outskirts of town for sale. Against the wishes of the family, Papa decides to purchase the property for their business, even after learning that the previous owners could not make a go of it because it is a mere one hundred feet from Le Saule Pleureur, a Michelin-starred restaurant where Marguerite works as a sous-chef, she trying to work her way up to chef-de-cuisine. Papa's resolve is strengthened as he believes their style of food is not only different than the French, but better in their bold flavors, something he wants to show the locals. Madame Mallory (Dame Helen Mirren), Le Saule Pleureur's proprietress, took over its running following the death of her husband. The restaurant is now her entire life, and she has waited close to thirty years for it to receive its second Michelin-star, so far without success. Madame Mallory does not take too kindly to her new neighbors, not only as potential competition, but in the Kadams', most specifically Papa's, brash and forward approach to life, unlike the refined French. An initial action by Madame Mallory to make sure Maison Mumbai, the Kadams' restaurant, doesn't succeed, leads to an all out war between her and Papa. But a potential bridge emerges between the two restaurants with the budding friendship and possible romance between Hassan and Marguerite. Beyond that friendship and romance, Hassan believes, to survive, they have to meld their bold flavors to local ingredients and techniques, he who wants to learn the art of French cooking from Marguerite. A singular action in that war results in what could be a fundamental shift between all the players at Le Saule Pleureur and Maison Mumbai. — Huggo
• Put young Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal) in a kitchen, and he's bound to emerge with a dish that will dazzle. When Hassan's family is forced to move from their native India, his Papa (Om Puri) relocates to a peaceful hamlet in Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val in the south of France. Determined to give his new neighbors a little taste of home, Papa decides to open an Indian restaurant in the village, and names it "Maison Mumbai". Meanwhile, across the street at the traditional French restaurant Le Saule Pleureu, uptight proprietor Madame Mallory (Dame Helen Mirren) doesn't exactly welcome the competition. When Madame Mallory ignites a bitter feud that quickly escalates, the only hope for a peaceful resolution lies in Hassan's talent for French haute cuisine, and his growing affections for Madame Mallory's pretty young sous chef Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon). Subsequently impressed by Hassan's undeniable culinary talents, Madame Mallory agrees to become Hassan's mentor, in the process providing the perfect creative environment where his unique fusion cuisine can thrive.
• In the opening scene, at a customs office, Hassan Kadam ( Manish Dayal ) explains to French Immigration why he and his family want to live in France: his family had owned a restaurant in Mumbai, but on an election night, there was a riot and their restaurant was set on fire, killing his mother who was the chef. He learned everything about cooking from her and has been trying to teach himself as his Papa moves the family about Europe. He fondly remembers buying sea urchins, the seller exclaiming that he gets cooking. Admitting he doesn't have any proof that he knows how to cook, except to offer a homemade samosa and saying that English produce isnt good enough, the Kadam family is allowed in. Papa ( Om Puri ) is driving the family throughout the French countryside, trying out random vegetable gardens, when their old van finally gives out in the hills above Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, a small village. A young woman passes by, offering to take them to the local mechanic. The family (also brothers Mansur and Mukthar and sisters Mahira and Aisha) push the van into town. Marguerite ( Charlotte Le Bon ), the woman, brings them to her apartment and offers a snack- a huge platter of radishes, butter and salt; home baked bread; large, fresh tomatoes; olives she picked and cured herself and little pastries. Delighted, Papa eagerly looks forward to bargaining with the hotel in town, much to Mansurs dismay. In the morning, Papa discovers an abandoned restaurant. As he and Hassan are exploring, Madame Mallory ( Helen Mirren ) announces they are trespassing. She admits she is not the owner either, but keeping an eye on the property for the owner who is in Paris. Again, Papa wants to bargain with the owner and soon we see the family cleaning up the restaurant to turn it into Maison Mumbai. The family finds out the reason why Madame is so hostile- she owns the restaurant just across the street: Le Saule Pleureur, a one star Michelin restaurant. Hassan finds mildewed French cookbooks in the kitchen as they prepare for the opening and strikes up a friendship with Marguerite, who he discovers is the sous chef at Madame's. Madame runs a tight ship, scolding employees for serving limp asparagus, saying food should be passionate. She visits her competition, demanding they turn down their Indian music and studies a menu which she takes with her. On opening day, Papa and Hassan travel to market only to discover Madame has snatched up all the crawfish, mushrooms and everything else in town on their opening night menu. Scrambling to save the day, the family forages the river and forest for the needed ingredients and manages to snag customers with native costumes, Mahira's smile and forceful behavior. Madame appeals to the mayor to close Maison Mumbai for various citations, but he appreciates the food too much. Papa turns the tables on Madame and purchases all the ingredients in town for pigeon truffle, one of the restaurant's renowned dishes. Marguerite tells Hassan that Madame doesn't interview job applicants, but asks them to prepare an omelet, knowing from one bite whether or not they have it. Hassan cooks a dish of pigeon with truffle sauce, (the recipe stolen with a bribe from Papa from one of the cooks), which he presents to Madame, and she then dumps in the trash. This is now war (cue the angry chopping). Madame tells her head chef, Jean-Pierre that he is a soldier, which he takes too seriously and has friends torch Maison Mumbai. Horrified, she personally scrubs their wall free of graffiti, fires Jean-Pierre and accepts when Hassan asks to make her an omelet, although he has to direct her since he severely burned his hands in the attack. His omelet includes Indian spices, onions, cilantro and spicy peppers. She raves after one bite and humbly admits that chefs must study for years for what he instinctively knows and admits that his pigeon was wonderful too. After a brief haggle with Papa over salary, Hassan moves across the street (one hundred feet), leaving behind his disappointed younger sister and hesitant older brother (who now has to cook) to polish off his cooking skills with Madame and Marguerite. At the end of one year, Hassan and Le Saule Pleureur have received the much coveted second Michelin star and Marguerite's controlled anger for she has been working for years to be head chef and also because Hassan will now be courted by many Parisian restaurants. The widowed Madame has clearly warmed to the Kadam family, calling Mahira a beauty, cooing to the younger children and feeding Papa a truffle. Another year later and Hassan is burnt out. He is much applauded, but he has taken up drinking (wine is considered strange in Indian culture). One night before Michelin stars are announced, he scolds a sous chef for ruining a sea urchin dish and finds a fellow Indian co-worker enjoying food sent from home. Soon he is taking a train back to Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, where he tells Marguerite that he has a business proposition for her. Secretly cooking sea urchin for Bastille Day, they consummate their relationship before Madame (who is now Papa's "almost" girlfriend) introduces them as the new partners of her restaurant to her guests and the Kadam family, who didn't even know that Hassan was back in town. When Hassan's phone rings, Papa sees that the call was from Michelin and implores him to call them back, but Hassan insists that he and Marguerite will get a third star next year at Le Saule Pleureur.

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The Hundred-Foot Journey review – curry-joint drama dishes up the cliches

A n Indian restaurateur and his family flee communal violence in Mumbai ("some election or other," the voice-over glibly informs us), and pitch up in southern France, where they open a gaudy curry joint opposite the local Michelin-starred swank house. Om Puri is the patriarch who finds himself at war with Helen Mirren , playing the outraged owner of the posh place, while Manish Dayal – the son with the golden fingers and tastebuds – and Charlotte Le Bon's eyes meet across the wild cèpes. You can guess the rest. Will the Indian family's zest for life melt Mirren's glacial heart? Will their spices change her view of food? Will Franglais – "I wish to make a complaint, officialement!" – be spoken? Cliche piles on cliche, but it's good-natured, undemanding fun.

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Julie & Julia (2009), Chef (2014)… We sure do love a movie that combines food and travel . It helps when the foodie film is shot in some faraway, gorgeous locale like middle-of-nowhere France. But, exactly where was The Hundred-Foot Journey filmed?

The Hundred-Foot Journey  (2014) is based on a novel about a rivalry between a Michelin-starred French restaurant and the new Indian restaurant across the street. Exactly 100 ft opposite. The Kadam family must prove that Maison Mumbai is a fine establishment while Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren) objects to their presence.

You will be disappointed to find out there aren’t many  The Hundred-Foot Journey  filming locations in France, or anywhere for that matter. Director Lasse Hallström shot a lot of the movie in Cité du Cinéma studio just north of Paris . And he used a heck of a lot of CGI and green screen on the locations that do exist so in real life they are almost unrecognisable. But don’t worry! There are still some beautiful The Hundred-Foot Journey locations you can visit and I’ve listed them all and provided a map, too.

Where Was The Hundred-Foot Journey Filmed?

The Hundred-Foot Journey Filming Locations in France

1. saint-antonin-noble-val, tarn-et-garonne.

The film opens with the Kadam family in Mumbai, India . Terrorists bomb their restaurant over a political issue, so the family seek asylum in London, England before settling in Midi-Pyrénées . The first The Hundred-Foot Journey  location in France is an ambiguous one. Hallström filmed for nine weeks in Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val , situated in the Tarn-et-Garonne  department. So, most of the street scenes and countryside scenes next to the river are in and around this town.

I’m just not exactly sure where! Because as I mentioned,  a lot of the scenes are rife with CGI. If you know of any specific filming locations, do let me know.

2. Castelnau-de-Lévis, Tarn-et-Garonne

I’m not sure if  Castelnau-de-Lévis  is one of  The Hundred-Foot Journey  film locations or not. My research tells me it might be! It’s really close to  Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val  in the same region. Maybe the scene at the beginning of the film when Marguerite helps tow the Kadam family to the garage? Who knows! Beautiful village either way.

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3. Carlus, Tarn-et-Garonne

This is a The Hundred-Foot Journey  filming location I am 100% certain exists. Not long after rolling into town, Papa Kadam (Om Puri) stumbles across a dilapidated farmhouse/restaurant. He sees the potential to turn it into a high-quality Indian restaurant-cum-home for his family. Madame Mallory’s restaurant Le Saule Pleureur  is directly opposite his.

I’m sure you already sensed there is some CGI at play here. In fact, there is  a lot .  Maison Mumbai  is an actual farmhouse that the film crew rented for a few weeks. But Le Saule Pleureur ? The facade is half set, half CGI and the landscape surrounding the two restaurants is mostly CGI.  The Hundred-Foot Journey  shot the exterior restaurant scenes in a very small village called  Carlus  just off the  D84 road . I’ve pinned the precise farmhouse on the Google map at the top of this post.

It is a private residence so unfortunately, you probably can’t rock up and have a wander around.

4. Halle de Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, Place de la Halle, Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val

Fortunately, this is another The Hundred-Foot Journey  film location that is very real. It’s the farmer’s market in the centre of the town. The characters purchase fresh produce for their respective restaurants from Halle de Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val   in Place de la Halle . The main structure dates back to 1840 but most of the market sprawls out onto the streets. The market takes place every Sunday morning and has existed in one form or another for over a century.

Throughout the film, characters sit at various restaurants and cafés in  Place de la Halle . One of which is Glaces Café .

5. Chateau La Durantié, Lanouaille

The exterior of  La Saule Pleureur  might be an illusion, but the interior is very real. It is extremely swanky Chateau La Durantié  in  Lanouaille . It boasts well-lit, bright white dining rooms, high ceilings and I’m sure the food served at this place is top-notch too.

6. Georges, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Madame Mallory hires Hassan, Maison Mumbai’s top chef, and he promptly earns her a Michelin star. Soon, all the top Parisian restaurants want to hire him so he leaves Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val  to work at  La Baleine Grise , a modern French fusion restaurant. In reality, the restaurant is  Georges   which occupies the top floor of  Centre Pompidou   in  Paris . It has an industrial design with glass walls so customers are treated to a beautiful panoramic view of the city.

So, where was The Hundred-Foot Journey  filmed? All of these filming locations are in France! Have you watched the movie or visited any of The Hundred-Foot Journey  filming locations? Let me know in the comments below!

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Bonjour Rebecca! Thank you for this interesting article. In 1984 I was an exchange student to France, living in a tiny village called Orban. My host mother’s parents lived in a neighboring village… Carlus! It was a very big deal to everyone when the American film crew came to make this movie. I now show it when doing a food unit in my high school French class. Amazing the way life can connect through the years!

Thanks so much for that story, Karen! I bet it was so surreal for the people with all the crew and set pieces around 😀

Hi Rebecca, well done in researching these locations, which I’m planning to take in on my next road trip to France. In the credits the town of Monteux was mentioned, which is near Carpentras in Provence. I can’t find any specific reason why this is so – have you considered this?

Hey Richard! I have to admit, this was a tough film to research. Not only because of the lack of information online and information available from the production but because of the really heavy CGI use throughout the movie. So if it’s not in the blog post it’s because I wasn’t able to identify which scene it was used for… Sorry I couldn’t be more help, enjoy your trip! 🙂

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Une famille indienne s’installe dans le Midi et ouvre un restaurant traditionnel en face d’un restaurant français classé au Michelin.

• Director: Lasse Hallström
• Casting: Helen Mirren , Manish Dayal , Om Puri
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Visit the Village from the Film “The Hundred-Foot Journey”

Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, in the Midi-Pyrénées region, is the picturesque medieval village portrayed in the feel-good film, “ The Hundred-Foot Journey ” ( Les recettes du bonheur ), directed by Lasse Hallström. Recently we made a 5000 air mile journey to visit and explore this scenic place.

One can discover the locations where scenes were filmed and re-live the story by taking a stroll down narrow cobblestoned streets. La Halle (the covered marketplace), in the center of the village, dates from 1840 and is the place where vendors displayed their produce in the film and what they continue to do every Sunday morning.

Nearby is Café de la Halle where tables and chairs spill out onto the square and folks gather for beverages and conversation. Facing the café is the oldest civic building in France, the 12th century Maison Romane (town hall), where consuls resided from 1312 to 1791. Now it houses a museum of prehistory. Located off the main street leading into the village is the old garage seen in the film, where the car is towed when it breaks down.

We saw the film for the third time at Le Querlys cinema, housed in an old, ornate, three-story building. Sitting next to me was a local woman, the truffle vendor, who had a brief appearance in the film along with a few hundred other locals.

Also worth seeing up close is the tall-spired neo-gothic church and the arched bridge that crosses the Aveyron River. Another smaller river, the Bonnette, flows around the western edge of the village and feeds into the larger Aveyron, creating an appealing framework to the circular village. Driving on a switchback road out of town, you are treated to stunning views of the village from a distance.

We stayed several nights at the three-sar La Résidence , a charming chambre d’hôtes with five spacious rooms located within the old village and giving access to the entire village by foot. We chose the tulip room with a rooftop terrace facing the Roc d’Anglars and the limestone cliffs that frame the village on the southern edge. The film is loosely based on the well-written book of the same title, written by Richard C. Morais.

Jo Anne Marquardt is the author of  My Trip Around the Hexagon: Meandering in France and  Falling in Love with France , both available at Amazon.com. Her first published book, Falling in Love with France, offers responses to the various questions friends and family have asked her over the years about why she visits France so often. The second book includes illustrations and descriptive notes from her travel journals.

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THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY

A story centered on an Indian family who moves to France and opens an eatery across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant run by Madame Mallory.

The Hundred-Foot Journey

A movie review by Dr. Lloyd Sederer

Posted August 9, 2014

Release date: August 8, 2014 (USA)

La France aux Français (France for the French)? Mais non – not in The Hundred-Foot Journey.

La France is for tout le monde, or so we can feel - though only after we also make a 100 foot journey into the community of mankind. That journey requires suspending a fair amount of reality testing, as anyone who has spent time in semi-rural southern France will attest. But if you can, and if you do, you will be treated to a Michelin 3-star heart warmer of a movie.

We begin the journey in Mumbai. The Haji family has for generations cooked succulent Indian food but is displaced by accident and misfortune. They try to recreate their restaurant in London but the food there even today, especially the produce necessary to make it, leaves a person’s palate wanting. Papa (the bulbous, endearing Om Puri), is the patriarch; he is widowed but surrounded by a son, two daughters, a son-in-law, and two grandchildren. In other words, a big, fat, wonderful Indian family. Packing their spices they head to the continent in a decrepit van. Fate has them stall out in a southern French village set among rolling hills, transected by a serpentine river, and rich with the bounty of the surrounding farm and woodland.

A 1-star French restaurant distinguishes the village, and draws diners from near and far. Madame Mallory (the regal Helen Mirren), a widow, rules the place with every detail of the restaurant and every hair on her head in place. She dreams of achieving a second Michelin star.

Papa spots an old building, à vendre, across the road from Madame’s tidy place. It is a rundown, abandoned restaurant 100 feet from Madame’s property and her propriety – about all there appears to be outside this village of old stone buildings, markets, and very French characters. Maintaining that being thrifty is different from being poor, Papa decides to buy the ruin of a restaurant and introduce the pleasures of south Indian cooking to the region. His secret weapon is his son, Hassan (Manish Dayal, a striking actor whose range carries him through the personal journey he portrays), with a gift for cooking that will change everyone, even the French and their revered cuisine.

Amazingly, the Haji family is able to afford and purchase the property, get permission for restoration, and find French artisans and workers who are not on generous summer holidays (or taking long lunches) in what seems like weeks. Even producers Steven Spielberg and Oprah Winfrey could not achieve that. Everything described about building a home and a life in the book, A Year in Provence , is truly an underestimate of how long that takes in rural France. I know: I have been at it for over ten years. Hassan’s sauces aren’t the only incroyable ingredients in this film.

Love interests abound and sweeten almost every scene. Boy (Hassan) meets girl (Marguerite, played by Charlotte Le Bon with a special glow and mesmerizing, saucer-sized eyes); the girl is an aspiring sous chef at Madame’s restaurant but we know right away that this tart dish will be cooking not just in the kitchen. Papa, a raucous, irreverent adventurer, develops a shine for the Madame, and she for him. But that pas de deux takes a lot more time.

Romance needs adversity and its form in this film should come as no surprise. The French are known for their xenophobic contingent; they appear in this village too - not just in rightwing French politics . But remember, it takes breaking some eggs and a fire before an omelet can be flipped and placed before you to relish. The bad guys are a necessary disruption before it arrives. And that, too, is not immediate, since you cannot truly come home until you leave, as does our hero Hassan. He becomes a celebrity chef, and a dissolute one at that, before discovering that home cooking is always the best.

So, enjoy this sumptuous film that director Lasse Hallström (Oscar nominee for Chocolat) serves up. If we surrender to his cinematic 100 foot journey we discover that France is not only for the French. When they open their kitchens, their towns, and their hearts to étrangers (strangers) there is a feast to be had for all who sit down to dine.

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