00:17It came up completely by chance.
00:20I was visiting a friend in Burgundy for the month of August in 2021,
00:26and I wanted to thank him and his wife for putting up with me for a month.
00:32So I looked in the Guy de Michelin for a nearby good restaurant,
00:36and I found Trois Gros, three stars.
00:40I made a reservation. We went there for lunch.
00:42During dessert, César Trois Gros, who's the fourth generation
00:46and is currently running the restaurant,
00:49came by the table to say hello.
00:51So without planning to, I sort of instinctively blurted out,
00:58I make documentary movies.
00:59Would you ever consider having a movie made about your restaurant?
01:05And he said, let me talk to my father.
01:08And he came back a half an hour later and said, why not?
01:18I think that Trois Gros, César, and Michel are artists,
01:23and what you see is their art being produced,
01:28even though it's ephemeral and it's consumed quickly.
01:35But they are artists in every sense of the word
01:40that painters or writers are artists.
01:47I don't watch television.
01:50And I had never seen a film about a restaurant.
01:54Whatever I learned about restaurants is what you see in the film.
01:57It's true of most of my films.
02:00I mean, I'd never spent any time in a welfare center
02:03or the emergency ward of a hospital,
02:05or I hadn't written around with the police.
02:09And that's part of the fun of doing it,
02:12because it's always an adventure,
02:14and I always like to think I've learned something.
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