Soul Kitchen (2009)
Country: GER/FR/IT
Technical: col 99m
Director: Fatih Akin
Cast: Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Anna Bederke, Pheline Roggan
Synopsis:
The manager of a modest, rundown restaurant-cum-club finds his life reaching crisis point when simultaneously his girlfriend leaves for China, his convict brother asks him for a job to back up his parole, and an old school friend turns the food inspectors on him as part of a hostile takeover bid. Then he does his back in moving the dishwasher.
Review:
One of the lighter offerings from the Turkish director with an eye for the immigrant experience, this is like an Aki Kaurismäki with shouting. The twists and turns of fate are suitably excessive in their improbability for a film in which anything goes and moves pretty fast at that. However, the cast play it for real and it keeps one amused nonetheless.
Country: GER/FR/IT
Technical: col 99m
Director: Fatih Akin
Cast: Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Anna Bederke, Pheline Roggan
Synopsis:
The manager of a modest, rundown restaurant-cum-club finds his life reaching crisis point when simultaneously his girlfriend leaves for China, his convict brother asks him for a job to back up his parole, and an old school friend turns the food inspectors on him as part of a hostile takeover bid. Then he does his back in moving the dishwasher.
Review:
One of the lighter offerings from the Turkish director with an eye for the immigrant experience, this is like an Aki Kaurismäki with shouting. The twists and turns of fate are suitably excessive in their improbability for a film in which anything goes and moves pretty fast at that. However, the cast play it for real and it keeps one amused nonetheless.
Country: GER/FR/IT
Technical: col 99m
Director: Fatih Akin
Cast: Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Anna Bederke, Pheline Roggan
Synopsis:
The manager of a modest, rundown restaurant-cum-club finds his life reaching crisis point when simultaneously his girlfriend leaves for China, his convict brother asks him for a job to back up his parole, and an old school friend turns the food inspectors on him as part of a hostile takeover bid. Then he does his back in moving the dishwasher.
Review:
One of the lighter offerings from the Turkish director with an eye for the immigrant experience, this is like an Aki Kaurismäki with shouting. The twists and turns of fate are suitably excessive in their improbability for a film in which anything goes and moves pretty fast at that. However, the cast play it for real and it keeps one amused nonetheless.