Love's Kitchen - A dessert to fall in love with
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Love's Kitchen - A dessert to fall in love with |
| Original title | Love's Kitchen |
| Country of production | Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | James Hacking |
| script | James Hacking |
| production | James Hacking, J. Alan Davis , Simone Ling , Duncan Napier-Bell , Nicholas Napier-Bell |
| music |
Gary Go , Tom Howe |
| camera | Jordan Cushing |
| cut |
Rupert Hall , Kant Pan |
| occupation | |
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Love's Kitchen - A dessert to fall in love with (Original title: Love's Kitchen ) is a British romantic comedy from 2011 with Dougray Scott and Claire Forlani in the leading roles.
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The accidental death of his wife throws the renowned London chef Rob Haley off the rails. Three years later he listlessly prepares the menus in his kitchen and a devastating restaurant review makes his guests stay away. It was only when his friend and famous professional colleague Gordon Ramsay stopped by and urged him to pull himself together in memory of his wife that Rob decided to make a fresh start. With his daughter Michelle he moves to the provinces without further ado, where he wants to turn an old pub into a small gourmet restaurant with the help of his friends Loz, Ingo and Shauna.
Local restaurant critic Kate Templeton, recently divorced, welcomes Rob's endeavors but doesn't believe it will be successful. Her wealthy and influential father Max, on the other hand, fears the onslaught of numerous restaurant guests and threatens Rob with appropriate measures if he and his pub cause trouble in their tranquil town. Rob and his friends were not deterred, however, and set up the rundown pub again. However, because Rob is too proud to stir the advertising drum, the hoped-for guests stay away from the grand opening of the new pub. Two old men finally venture inside, but to Rob's annoyance they only order sandwiches. Only with tears does Rob's daughter Michelle manage to persuade the skeptical gentlemen Rob's famous trifle . Enthusiastic about the dessert, the men come to Rob regularly from now on. Even Kate Templeton is impressed with Rob's cooking skills and suggests getting the necessary publicity. Rob, however, is against it, although he is aware that he can only hold the bar for another month without guests.
When Kate, who has since become friends with Michelle, finally publishes a review and praises Rob's Pub in the highest tones, Rob and his people can hardly save themselves from pre-orders. Well-respected restaurant critic Guy Witherspoon, who appears regularly on television, also hears about Rob's new eatery. They both know each other from before and Witherspoon decides to do his old friend a favor by filming the pub. Kate's father Max, on the other hand, is fed up with the hustle and bustle around Rob's pub and the associated traffic jams. When a helicopter even lands on his property because a rich rock star wants to be fed in the pub, Max decides to put the health department on Rob's pub. Because Kate and Rob have become closer in the meantime, his former son-in-law James Forester offers him his help. One night he breaks into the pub. The next morning, as planned, an officer from the health department stopped by Rob and found rats in the kitchen. However, Rob only receives a warning, whereupon James personally brings him a summons for a court hearing. There have been complaints from residents to the local police.
However, because he has learned that it was Kate who once wrote the scathing review of his restaurant in London, and believes she is in cahoots with James and her father, Rob sends her away when she is in his kitchen, as is so often the case stop by. Guy Witherspoon arrives with his film crew to shoot his contribution about the pub. In order to give him a decent menu, Rob does not go to the concurrent hearing on which the future of his pub depends. After all, it is Kate who stands in for him at the hearing and vigorously advocates for him. After Witherspoon, who has recently become unreliable, effortlessly and praised his post, Rob learns that Kate has made sure that he can continue to run his pub. Kate, however, is on her way to the airport. Determined to apologize to her, Rob follows her and - against his fear of high speed - steps on the accelerator. He ends up having an accident in front of her car. Kate drives on at first, but then returns to him and makes up with him.
background
Love's Kitchen - A dessert to fall in love with was the feature film debut by James Hacking , who also wrote the script and helped fund the project. The film was shot at Letchmore Heath near London and at Elstree Studios in Borehamwood .
The film was released direct to DVD in the United States on June 7, 2011, prior to its launch in UK theaters (June 24, 2011). In Germany it was released on DVD on February 15, 2013. On February 13, 2014, it was shown for the first time on German television on the Disney Channel .
Reviews
The reviews in Great Britain in particular were bad. For Anna Smith from Empire , Love's Kitchen - a dessert to fall in love with was “predictable and unappealing”, even if the country pub exudes a certain “charm” and Simon Callow was “sometimes fun”. The production, however, feels “more amateurish” “than you would expect from a film with this cast”. He reached his "low point" at the moment when TV chef Gordon Ramsay showed up as himself.
Anthony Quinn from the Independent was also outraged by the "amateur character of this British non-comedy", whose creators apparently had not noticed the "unspeakable lameness" of the script. The director and screenwriter James Hacking simply “has no idea about dialogues, timing or where to position the camera”. The actors acted "as if they had never acted in their lives". Gordon Ramsay, who made his film debut here, is not even able to deliver “a convincing representation of himself”. According to the Guardian's Peter Bradshaw , the result is "timelessly embarrassing horror" and "excruciatingly uncomfortable mess". Gordon Ramsay had an "unbearable cameo ". Peter Bowles and Simon Callow made the most of the "devastatingly cheap script".
"Predictably, but played charmingly," said Cinema a little more conciliatory. The conclusion was: "The kitchen love could have used more seasoning." TV Movie rated the film with a red star and described it as "[l] light fare based on a tried and tested recipe".
Web links
- Love's Kitchen - A dessert to fall in love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Love's Kitchen - A dessert to fall in love with Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ “The rest is inevitable and rarely involving, although there's a certain sleepy country-gastro-pub charm about the setting, and Simon Callow is occasionally fun. […] This feels far more amateur than you'd expect of a film with this cast. The lowest point comes when Gordon Ramsay turns up as himself. " Anna Smith: Love's Kitchen on empireonline.com
- ↑ “The amateurishness of this Brit non-com [… J] ust as nobody noticed the unutterable lameness of James Hacking's script. [...] Hacking has no idea about dialogue, pacing, or even where to position the camera. The cast perform as if they had never acted before in their lives. Gordon Ramsay, who has never acted before, can't even do a convincing impersonation of himself. " Anthony Quinn: Love's Kitchen . In: The Independent , June 24, 2011.
- ↑ “[T] he result is a grisly, unfunny mess. [...] film with an eternal, timeless kind of embarrassing awfulness. [...] Gordon Ramsay has an excruciating cameo, but Peter Bowles and Simon Callow do their level best with a script so poisonously naff. " Peter Bradshaw: Love's Kitchen - review . In: The Guardian , June 23, 2011.
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ cf. tvmovie.de ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
