This French Ad Has the Most Unbelievably Gorgeous Food Shots Ever

If you like to cook, eat or look at pretty things, enjoy this gorgeously hypnotic bit of food porn from French coffee brand Carte Noir.

Created by Proximity BBDO and two directors from Le Potager, the visual craft is on par with Wieden + Kennedy's bar-setting 2012 paean to vegetables for British butter brand Lurpak. Someone more savvy to kitchens than I will have to parse exactly what's happening when, but basically it's about baking delicious little pastries filled with coffee-flavored cream to eat with your coffee ("Chou" also means cabbage in French, but don't be confused).

The ambitious among you can find out how to make them, in French, over at the Carte Noire website, along with the following message. "Discover Rose by Carte Noire, greedy video reserved for women. Exclusively for men, this recipe is to enjoy with friends. But you resist the urge to share these adorable cabbage with your lover?" OK, maybe Google Translate didn't nail the details, but you get the idea. "Download the recipe without waiting!" is pretty clear, though.

Overenthusiastic copywriting is always better in languages you don't actually speak, because you don't mind that ads are talking to you like a 3-year-old.

CREDITS
Client: Carte Noire
Agency: Proximity BBDO, Paris
Directors: M. Roulier et P. Lhomme
Production Company: Le Potager
Food dDesigner: Emmanuel Turiot
Style Designer: Sylvie Bagros
Editing: Bruno Herlin
Music Supervisor, Composer: Aymeric Lepage
Sound Design: The Hot Line


    



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THE ORIGINAL?
Carte Noire Coffee / Kraft Foods – 09/2011
Source : Blogopub
Agency : BETC Euro RSCG (France)
LESS ORIGINAL?
Nescafé “the hypnotist” – 11/2011
Source : AgencySpy, Coloribus
Agency : twofifteen McCann (USA/Mexico)