Madame Mallory and the scent of curry
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Madame Mallory and the scent of curry |
| Original title | The Hundred-Foot Journey |
| Country of production | India , USA |
| original language | English , French , Hindi |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 122 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Let Hallström |
| script | Steven Knight |
| production |
Juliet Blake , Steven Spielberg , Oprah Winfrey |
| music | AR Rahman |
| camera | Linus Sandgren |
| cut | Andrew Mondshein |
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The Hundred-Foot Journey is a comedy film from the year 2014 . Directed by Lasse Hallstrom . The film is based on the novel The Hundred-Foot Journey by Richard C. Morais . Helen Mirren , Om Puri , Manish Dayal and Charlotte Le Bon play the leading roles . The title of the novel, which is also the original title of the film, means the 30-meter journey and indicates the distance between two culturally different restaurants that the protagonists overcome in the course of the story.
action
The Indian Kadam family runs a restaurant in Mumbai , where the second eldest son Hassan learns how to choose foods and spices as well as the art of cooking from his mother as a child. A few years later, after an election riot , her restaurant was burned down by the mob , killing her mother. The dad decides to start a new life in Europe with his five children and the few remaining belongings.
After a short stay in London, the family travels in a decrepit vehicle through southern France , where they break down in the small French town of Saint-Antonin after a breakdown . Marguerite, the deputy head chef of the local posh restaurant Le Saule Pleureur (French for “weeping willow”), takes her in while her vehicle is being repaired. Papa is amazed at the good quality of the food Marguerite offers them and that almost everything comes from the area.
By chance he found an abandoned building on the outskirts that turned out to be a former restaurant and was for sale. He decides to buy the house and open a new Indian restaurant, despite objections from his children. They see their father's plan as pointless, as Le Saule Pleureur , which offers haute cuisine of classic French cuisine , is directly opposite and has also been awarded a Michelin star . Madame Mallory, the owner, is disturbed by the hustle and bustle of the new Indian neighbors, and when the maison Mumbai is about to open , she buys all the groceries Chef Hassan needs at the local market . She also files a complaint with the mayor, who is, however, neutral. This is the beginning of a dispute between Madame Mallory and Papa, which continues to develop new capers.
After initial difficulties, the Indian restaurant is doing well. Hassan offers his increasingly large crowd of guests a mixed cuisine made from local ingredients, which he refines with his special Indian spices. Meanwhile, a timid relationship develops between him and Marguerite. She secretly supplies him with books on classic French cuisine, which Hassan literally devours. The kitchen staff of the upscale restaurant under head chef Jean-Pierre, on the other hand, look contemptuously at their foreign neighbors. Finally, on the national holiday, the Maison Mumbai is thrown with incendiary bombs. Hassan can drive the strangers away, but he burns his hands. In addition, the outside wall of the restaurant is smeared with the slogan “La France aux Français” (French for “France the French”).
Madame Mallory then fires her head chef, whom she identifies as the instigator of the attack. She ends the quarrel and scrubs the diatribe off the neighboring wall with her own hand. Since Marguerite Hassan had told that her boss had her new chefs prepare an omelette as an "application" , he asked Madame Mallory to help him prepare the egg dish because of his injured hands. She is enthusiastic about his dish, which is refined with Indian spices, and offers him a job in her kitchen to further promote his special gift. In view of the new competitive situation on the independent chef, this leads to disagreements between Marguerite and Hassan. In the meantime, he has perfected his French cuisine, so that after a while, Le Saule Pleureur is awarded the long-awaited second Michelin star. This gives Hassan the chance to continue his education in a posh restaurant in Paris, and he leaves Saint-Antonin.
While Hassan soon rose to become one of the most famous chefs in France thanks to his special culinary art in molecular gastronomy , Madame Mallory and Papa became closer. But Hassan is increasingly suffering from loneliness in the big city and misses his family and Marguerite. Finally, he returns to Saint-Antonin and is reconciled with Marguerite. Then he surprises his family with the news that Madame Mallory has hired him as the new managing director and head chef of Le Saule Pleureur and that he is aiming for the third Michelin star there - together with Marguerite as a business partner.
criticism
Madame Mallory and the scent of curry were mostly positively received. In the Internet Movie Database , the film received 7.5 stars out of 10. The German film and media rating awarded the rating “particularly valuable” with the following reason: “Overall, an integration piece staged with a light hand with culinary cooking competitions and romantic entanglements, which clearly has very fairytale traits [sic]. Helen Mirren captivates in the title role, with the young Manish Dayal as Hassan and Charlotte Le Bon as Marguerite and Om Puri as father by no means remain in their shadow. Suitable musical accompaniment, which supports the counterpoints with Indian sounds as well as classical and French tones. ”According to Susan Vahabzadeh from the Süddeutsche Zeitung , the film would be“ only half worth ”without Helen Mirren. The Tagesspiegel also praised Mirren's performance: "She masters the transformation of the jealous bitch into an empathetic patroness as virtuously as she last embodied the Queen in her emotional prison."
The Guardian editor Tom Shone gives a negative verdict: "Helen Mirren and Om Puri are doing their best to spice up this all too predictable and soft-boiled clash of cultures against the backdrop of the French restaurant scene." He awards 2 stars out of 5. Bill Zwecker of the Chicago Sun-Times complains that “the outcome of the story is absolutely predictable”, but “the verbal exchange between Mirren and Puri” alone makes the film worth seeing.
Awards
In 2014 the film won the audience award from Den norske filmfestivalen and the “Truly Moving Picture Award” from the US Heartland Film Festival . Leading actress Helen Mirren received nominations for the Women Film Critics Circle Award 2014 ("Best Comedic Actress") and 2015 for the Golden Globe Award ( Best Actress - Comedy or Musical ). In 2015, Madame Mallory and the scent of curry were nominated for the Grand Jury Prize of the Winnipeg Real to Reel Film Festival , which was awarded to Philippe Falardeau's The Good Lie .
Web links
- The Hundred-Foot Journey in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Madame Mallory and the Scent of Curry in the online movie database
- The Hundred-Foot Journey atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- The world of locations: Madame Mallory and the scent of curry
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Madame Mallory and the Scent of Curry . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 288 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Madame Mallory and the scent of curry . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Madame Mallory and the Scent of Curry (2014) on imdb.com, accessed September 28, 2014.
- ↑ Madame Mallory and the Scent of Curry on fbw-filmbendung.com, accessed on September 28, 2014.
- ↑ Susan Vahabzadeh: Kleinkrieg der Kochs on sueddeutsche.de, accessed on September 28, 2014.
- ↑ Bernd Matthies: Ganz was Feines on tagesspiegel.de, accessed on September 28, 2014.
- ↑ Tom Shone: The Hundred-Foot Journey first look review - romance on the menu at theguardian.com, accessed September 28, 2014.
- ↑ Bill Zwecker: 'The Hundred-Foot Journey': Restaurant story well-served by seasoned stars ( Memento of the original from September 28, 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. on suntimes.com, accessed September 28, 2014.
