Bon Appétit

Bon Appétit (2010)

Bon appétit

Recipes for friends who kiss

A romantic comedy centered on two young cooks and a female sommelier working in a famous Zurich luxury restaurant.

Date of release
2010-11-12
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (29)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Drama, Romance
Director
David Pinillos

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Germany, Switzerland, and Spain

Bon Appétit is a 2010 romantic drama film directed by David Pinillos and written by Juan Carlos Rubio, David Pinillos, and Paco Cabezas. The story is based on a young Spanish chef working at a prestigious restaurant in Zürich, Switzerland. He falls in love with a work-partner but she is in love with their boss. The film features Unax Ugalde and Nora Tschirner.

Production

Bon Appétit is the first film directed by David Pinillos. Producer Pedro Uriol said that he and Pinillos are friends who have known each other for many years. Pinillos had worked as a film editor, but not as a director, but according to Uriol, he had the most important qualities in a director: sensitivity and technique. The screenplay was written by David Pinillos, Juan Carlos Rubio and Paco Cabezas.

Pinillos had worked with important directors like editing worker like Álex de la Iglesia or Daniel Sánchez Arévalo. Pinillos wanted to tell a story about that "thin red line" that divides love and friendship and that everyone has occasionally, and how that crossing changes and complicates life. Both Pinillos and Uriol wanted a protagonist who goes to another country because that suggests a new beginning.

Morena Films, the studio, is got used to work in European spheres and the producer likes to work with international co-producers. Bon Appétit found other studios for European market: Morena Films from Spain, Zodiac Pictures from Switzerland and Egoli Tossell from Germany.

Thanks for studios and other producer companies like Beta Films (distributor of The Lives of Others), Pixstar, Italian producer and television and European financing programmes by EURIMAGES and MEDIA was possible to realise Bon Appétit in Spanish, Swiss and German cinemas with a 2.8 million euros in budget. In Spain, channel television implied were ETB and TVE.

Like there are actors from many European countries, the film was shot in English although there are parts in Spanish, French, and German languages.

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