• Director(s):

    ALLES (CHANTAL)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE FRANCE

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2014

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Polynesia, a distant land of France, with its characteristic saturated colours, was the backdrop for painter Paul Gauguin’s turbulent existence and tormented love life. In his Cancale kitchen, Breton chef Olivier Roellinger often reflects upon Gauguin, for whom he has unreserved admiration.

So moved was the chef on viewing “The Meal”, a work Gauguin painted at the very beginning of his Tahitian period (in 1891) and which is today kept at the Musée d’Orsay, that he set out on the tracks of the artist. In the house Gauguin stayed at in Le Pouldu, Roellinger connects with the Brittany of the 19th century in all its authenticity. He blends local flavours with the produce of the exotic islands, such as the fei banana picked in Tahiti. “Cooking calls for a light head, a generous spirit and a big heart” Gauguin once said. There’s no better way to describe Olivier Roellinger.