La petite cuisine de Mehdi (2025)
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Younès Boucif, Clara Bretheau, Hiam Abbass, Gustave de Kervern
A chef hoping to take over the restaurant where he works recruits a friend to impersonate his mother before his fiancée meets her.
The story
Mehdi, an Algerian-born chef at the Baratin restaurant, and Léa, a waitress there, are colleagues and lovers who live together. They are considering taking over the restaurant from its owner, with Léa’s parents willing to help finance the purchase. Léa wants to meet Fatima, Mehdi’s mother, but Mehdi has kept his fiancée hidden from her and panics about how his mother will react. To manage the impending meeting, he asks his friend Souhila to pose as his mother.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
Mehdi, an Algerian-born chef at the Baratin restaurant, and Léa, a waitress at the same establishment, are colleagues and lovers. They live together and are thinking of taking over the restaurant from its owner. Léa’s parents are willing to help them finance the takeover. Léa would like to meet Fatima, Mehdi’s mother. Panicking at the thought of how his mother will react when she discovers the fiancée he has kept hidden from her, Mehdi asks his friend Souhila to pretend to be his mother.
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