Soul Kitchen Fatih Akin
the outskirts of Hamburg, a cook of Greek origin, Zinos, manages a negligible restaurant frequented by a rough and not very demanding clientele. Forced to rest by an accident, takes on a new Zinos cook, a visionary chef of nouvelle cuisine, the restaurant that transforms into a trendy and change the lives of its patrons and its owner.
With humor to sell, a turkish-German director Fatih Akin , former director of the dramatic Head- and The Edge of Heaven , says the global society with a play alive with a kaleidoscope of characters and events from the point of absurdity. The film is set in a restaurant for those who need stuff to loyal customers, has a protagonist with overweight the herniated disc (played by Adam greek Bousdoukos, who is also writer), and a wonderful soundtrack that mixes funk and rhythm & blues with hip hop, rebetiko greek and a song by Hans Albers. As can be easily understood and to understand after a few minutes, is a screwball comedy because today you have to be a bit 'hit and be romantic Soul Kitchen of Fatih Akin everyone is so crazy to want to do only what they like. So in the end win the good, the bad are punished and those loser worthy of a film Kaurismaki finally right to lightness and good humor of a musical with Fred Astaire.
Author, screenwriter and producers have repeatedly said that Soul Kitchen is a modern Heimat, or home of a movie idea, then, modern, community, family and belonging. That is really the maximum for a film shot and directed by children and grandchildren of immigrants: Akin is indeed of Turkish origin and in his previous films have always dealt with the suffering and displacement of his condition, but never with a look so light and light-hearted as in this case and indeed often indulging (and excessively) in the family drama.
Because in the end, despite the tragedies (family and others) continue to happen and overrule the chronicle of our times, things can change. At the movies, of course, where you just need a bit 'way for the resolution of images, a first class musical knowledge, a flair for the really cool of time (in this case, for example, the kitchen like), and some sound principle to make a film against the original and unconventional to tell from a contemporary point of view as unexpected as it takes.
Soul Kitchen, for better or for worse, all this is: a funny movie, funny, loud and sideshow, a mixture of cultural influences and identities of modern society, past and blend for an hour and a half of comedy that although the minutes went astray with the relentless pace of the first part, manages to maintain a steady force of his irony and his good nature.
Akin, born in Hamburg to Turkish immigrants, is then returned to his hometown to kick off an uproar of friendship, love, mascalzonaggine, madness and paradox returns with affection, but without the atmosphere of indulgence border line of multi-ethnic port city and enjoyable. It is certainly not unexpected development of the plot, but the rousing cadence of recitations, dialogues and the soundtrack makes the images authentic, intelligent, mocking and included protest against the dismantling of old, expensive (and filthy) industrial districts not pedantic or ideological.
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