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Occasionally, Iowa humor can be funny. (Example: What's the difference between yogurt and Iowa? Yogurt has active culture.) But after awhile, it starts to cut an edge. Behind the protective facade of a joke, genuine chronic Eastern-centrism prevails...
...plot is complexity itself. Romuald (Daniel Auteuil) runs a yogurt company. He is having an affair with his secretary. His wife is having an affair with his assistant. The assistant botches a vat of yogurt, triggering a rash of food poisoning. Two other colleagues of Romuald's frame their boss on an insider-trading charge, and soon Romuald is fired. If only he would listen to Juliette (Firmine Richard), the office cleaning woman, who has been uncovering scraps of the conspiracy while maintaining the bluff invisibility of the servant class. And if Romuald listens to this black Cassandra...
...sure there are women in my dining hall who have serious eating concerns. I worry that someday, when one of them is eating a salad or some yogurt, a paradoxically ignorant tutor will approach and compliment them on their apparently pleasing slimness. And one of them might think this woman knows something. But both of them can easily find this kind of wisdom and judgment from their peers. The apple does not fall far from the tree, but the problem is now even Eve would...
...cream proprietors say that even though they have entered the frozen yogurt market, ice cream will still be their main business...
...think ice cream will ever go out of style because of yogurt," Leahy said. "It's like blue jeans. Blue jeans are a trend that are here to stay. People in their 50s and older come in here all the time. They aren't wearing blue jeans, but they want ice cream...