Le Goût des autres

Questions (comprehension, culture, vocabulary)

1. How is negation used? (In other words, are there always two negative particles present?)

2. In which scenes do second-person pronouns (tu and vous) indicate something about personal relationships or hierarchies? Are these uses typical or atypical?

3. How does the title relate to the scenes selected for these lessons or other scenes in the movie?

4. When a pronoun is used, the referent is the word the pronoun refers to. For each third-person pronoun (il, elle, ils, elles) in these scenes, find the referent.

5. Identify all the words related to interior decorating in Scene 1.

6. Who is Flucky?

7. When Bruno (the chauffeur) mentions the number "60" what is he talking about? Would this be the same number used in a similar context in the U.S.?