He is a marvelous chef and has no particular judgment on the Revolution but thinks it's a pity that the Red Army soldiers don't appreciate good food. He tries to communicate his passion to them by giving recipes to the army cook - who couldn't give a damn. The film is an ode to cooking. It contains some wonderful, incredibly original recipes, which make your mouth water. It is very sensual.
Good cooking encourages conviviality, just like wine.
You don't drink a great wine all alone, it would be too sad. Wine is made for sharing, it makes you express your feelings and impressions to others. Wine stewards, of course, worship good food, it's their innate sense of a pleasure shared. The film is just as exhilarating. On the restaurant's opening night, Pascal pirouettes from one dish to another, he is wildly exited, he grabs Cecilia by the hand, crisscrosses the room, clowning around to amuse the guests, but he has his eye on everything.