Kitchen with Apartment

Cuisine et Dépendances (1993) is a French comedy-drama you can watch online on iFILM. Jacques and Martine haven't seen their old friend in a decade — and now he's on television every night. Dinner has to be perfect. It won't be.

Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui wrote the original stage play and star in it too: Bacri as the worn-down host, Jaoui as his wry sister. Director Philippe Muyl keeps the camera in one apartment and lets the pressure build through undercut silences and small, precise cruelties. The film is essentially a clinical autopsy of what ambition does to friendship over ten years. Watch Cuisine et Dépendances online on iFILM.