Soul Kitchen
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 40 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 21, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Ifc Independent Film
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Pheline Roggan, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birol Ünel, Adam Bousdoukos, Lucas Gregorowicz & Anna Bederke | |
Directed by | Fatih Akin | |
Screenwriting by | Fatih Akin & Adam Bousdoukos | |
Director of Photography: | Rainer Klausmann |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The slapsticky tone of Akin's latest work is more anarchic than heavenly, but the picture has its screwball charms.
Seattle Times
Rating: 3/4 --
Soul Kitchen, which features a soundtrack laden with American soul and R&B standards, was a hit in Europe, and I suspect many American moviegoers will respond to it as well.
Chicago Tribune
Rating: 3/4 --
It's silly, but it feels pretty good.
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Chicago Sun-Times
Nicely cast ensembler, centered on a hopelessly disorganized eatery owner and peopled by a weird collection of lovable eccentrics, is pacey entertainment that hardly puts a foot wrong.
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Variety
Like the aphrodisiac-spiked dessert that Shayn prepares one night, the movie's effects may not linger long, but they are feverishly fun and guilt-free while they last.
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Film Comment Magazine
Rating: 2.5/4 --
"Soul Kitchen" is like a restaurant where the vibe is friendly, the music is cool, the people are all interesting, and it's so much fun to hang out at that you easily overlook the fact that the food isn't actually all that good.
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Capital Times (Madison, WI)
The notion of home is central here, a place where members of an ad hoc family can come together hungrily, and joyously.
Wall Street Journal
Product Description:
A low-budget restaurateur finds himself in a big vat of trouble in this comedy from director Fatih Akin. Zinos Kazantsakis (Adam Bousdoukos) runs a cheap restaurant in a run-down warehouse distract that he calls the Soul Kitchen. While the food isn't very good, it doesn't cost much and a regular clientele shows up each evening for cheap beer, filling food, and the company of their peers. Bad luck follows Zinos like a shadow, and when his girlfriend, Nadine (Pheline Roggan), runs off to China, he decides to follow, putting his brother (Moritz Bleibtreu) in charge of the restaurant. However, his brother is a convicted criminal, and before long the city's underworld has taken over the place and tax collectors are threatening to shut them down. Zinos returns after Nadine pledges her heart to another, and discovers his diner is a shambles; hoping to put the Soul Kitchen back on its feet, Zinos hires a flashy gourmet chef (Birol Unel) to revamp the menu, but soon he's alienated his old customers while new ones haven't taken their place. SOUL KITCHEN received its North American premiere at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
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- UPC: 030306977195
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