Kiss the Cook - This is what life tastes like!

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Movie
German title Kiss the Cook - This is what life tastes like!
Original title boss
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 114 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 8
Rod
Director Jon Favreau
script Jon Favreau
production Jon Favreau,
Sergei Bespalov
camera Kramer Morgenthau
cut Robert Leighton
occupation

Kiss the Cook - This is what life tastes like! (Original title: Chef ) is an American feature film from 2014 . Jon Favreau acted as the director, screenwriter, lead actor and producer of the film. The film premiered on March 3, 2014 at the South by Southwest Film Festival. On May 9, 2014 it started in a limited release in the USA. In Germany, the film opened in cinemas a year later on May 28, 2015.

content

The professional chef Carl Casper, chef de cuisine in a popular Los Angeles restaurant , suffers from a professional and personal crisis of meaning. Again and again he is slowed down by Riva, the owner of the restaurant, when he wants to implement his creative, culinary ideas. The visits of his son Percy, whom he fetches every two weeks from his divorced wife Inez, are more bad than good.

After a bad review by the restaurant critic Ramsey Michel, he tweeted him believing it was a private message that he challenged him to criticize again. Since this tweet was public, the restaurant is fully booked. For this reason, the owner vehemently forbids him to change the menu sequence that has been tried and tested for years. After a falling out, he leaves the bar and his colleagues have to take over. The critic Michel is served the same menu sequence as last time and releases a corresponding tweet. Carl walks into the restaurant and has a public argument with Michel that goes viral on the net. This makes him a celebrity on the internet.

Carl quits his job in anger and accompanies his ex-wife Inez and Percy on a trip back to his hometown Miami . Inez's first ex-husband, Marvin, gave him a used food truck . Together with his son Percy, he starts cleaning the car and gets a new stove and other kitchen utensils. Its aim is to sell Cuban sandwiches based on a special recipe. Unexpectedly, he gets help from his former colleague Martin, who has also turned his back on the restaurant and wants to support Carl.

The trio is now on their way back to Los Angeles with the idea of ​​stopping and selling sandwiches. What Carl doesn't notice is his son's viral support. He tweets the tour and the stops of the car and every time he stays, countless customers are already there, waiting for El Chefe. This viral success also leads to the fact that the restaurant critic Ramsey Michel, buys a sandwich through a straw man and is enthusiastic about it. He confronts Carl with the idea of ​​being available to him as a partner for a restaurant where he can freely practice his cooking skills.

At the end of the tour, father and son go their separate ways. Percy wants to continue to support his father on the weekends and after school, but Carl blocks. As a farewell, Percy sends him a video where he only recorded one second of each day they shared. After seeing this collage , Carl changes his mind and says yes to his son.

At the end of the film, you see a thriving restaurant, as Carl and Ramsey have teamed up. A wedding is being celebrated there, it is that of Carl and Inez, who have reunited.

Reviews

Werner Theurich from Spiegel Online judged positively: “The film about the current gastro hype: Jon Favreau plays a gourmet cook in 'Kiss The Cook' who first has to fall deeply before he rediscovered the simple pleasures with a food truck. A comedy that makes you happy like a plate of pasta. "

Cosima Lutz from Hamburger Abendblatt also rated the film positively: “Favreau himself is moving away from the elaborately prepared action cinema ('Iron Man') and back to his beginnings in independent cinema ('Swingers', 1996). 'Kiss the Cook' is therefore also a snotty hymn to creativity. In one of the happiest moments (apart from Scarlett Johansson's pasta seduction scene), a brass version of Marvin Gaye's 'Sexual Healing' makes the old truck vibrate: the cook, himself as clumsy as a tuba, pounds along, his little son smiles and shakes his head into yourself. Life is eros, may it be. "

Kai Mihm from epd Film , on the other hand, had mixed opinions: He positively emphasized that “Jon Favreau made every effort at the beginning of 'Kiss the Cook' to turn the sub-genre of the food film from its head back on its feet: Cooking is tough here Work that is carried out with sober professionalism and hard-hitting passion. ”Favreau describes the“ grueling balancing act between business and personal “vision” “with pinpoint accuracy and amusement, as does the love-hate relationship between chefs and critics.” The first third of the film was played “That shimmering, concentrated energy, as one imagines it to be in a top kitchen under high pressure.” With Casper's job loss, however, suddenly “another film (...) from the exciting portrait of a manic character becomes a father-son story as unimportant as Casper's panned menu. ”Also the“ very nice idea, the geography of the trip on regional immigrant delicacies such as Cuban sandwiches in Wed. Ami and French fritters in New Orleans ”and thus“ to take the image of America as a cultural salad bowl literally ”remains“ superficial ”.

publication

The film was released in Germany on October 22, 2015 by Koch Media on DVD and Blu-ray. The film was released in the USA on September 30, 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Release certificate for Kiss the Cook - This is how life tastes! Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry, January 2015 (PDF; test number: 146 779 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Kiss the Cook - This is how life tastes! Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Food movie "Kiss the Cook": On the hand and right into the heart at spiegel.de, accessed on May 30, 2015
  4. ^ "Kiss The Cook": How life tastes like that at Abendblatt.de, accessed on May 30, 2015
  5. ↑ Review of Kiss the Cook: This is how life tastes | epd film. Retrieved June 16, 2020 .