ORANGE-FLAVOURED WEDDING © Léolo Victor-Pujebet
Christophe Honoré captures a family crisis in Mariage au goût d’orange (Orange-flavoured Wedding)
For his seventh time in Cannes, Christophe Honoré adapts his own play, Le Ciel de Nantes (2021). The film is called Mariage au goût d’orange (Orange-flavored Wedding) and assembles a star-studded cast to form a family that is brought together to celebrate the youngest sibling’s nuptials. The ceremony will expose shortcomings of every family member and reveal their shadowy and innermost secrets.
Picture a wedding day in 1970s Nantes. In Mariage au goût d’orange (Orange-flavored Wedding), Christophe Honoré immerses us into the nostalgia-tinted provincial France of his childhood, filled with its music, iconic cars, and bell-bottomed pants. The happy stage is set, but something is amiss with the family Puig. Despite the cheerful aura, as the celebrations progress and the alcohol flows, each of the seven siblings unravels to varying degrees. From Claudie (Adèle Exarchopoulos), whose anxiety permeates the film’s first scenes, to her brother Dominique’s (Vincent Lacoste) merry ways, or even Roger’s (Alban Lenoir) simmering violence.
Hovering over them, like a bad specter, is the banished father, absent from the ceremony, but who still casts a shadow over this family, consumed by repercussions of his mysterious acts. At the same time, the recent Algerian war is a silent yet disturbing guest among them.
To round off the cast, Paul Kircher and Malou Khebizi play the newlyweds, while Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Noée Abita, and Park Ji-min, form a vibrant trio to the tune of Claude François.
