epicure

Do you think he’s a secret epicure?

The gentle yet insistent refrain of this movie, which was loosely inspired by Marcel Rouff’s classic 1924 novel “The Passionate Epicure,” is that Eugénie and Dodin are artists.

Two of her most memorable novels-as-character-studies are “In the Drink” and “The Epicure’s Lament.”

As French epicure Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin famously put it, “Tell me what you eat: I will tell you what you are.”

Connie is an epicure, a gourmand, a bon vivant, a lover and appreciator of fine food and drink.