Tortilla Soup - The spice of life

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Movie
German title Tortilla Soup - The spice of life
Original title Tortilla Soup
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Maria Ripoll
script Vera Blasi ,
Ramón Menéndez ,
Tom Musca
production Samuel Goldwyn Jr. ,
John Bard Manulis
music Bill Conti
camera Xavier Pérez Grobet
cut Andy Blumenthal
occupation

Tortilla Soup - The Spice of Life (Original Title: Tortilla Soup ) is an American comedy from 2001 . Directed led María Ripoll , the writer wrote Vera Blasi , Ramón Menéndez and Tom Musca . The lead role in the remake of Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman from the year 1994 played Hector Elizondo .

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Martin Naranjo, a widower of Mexican descent living in the United States , is the head chef at his own restaurant. The three grown daughters live in his house: Leticia, the eldest, is a chemistry teacher, the second Carmen became a management consultant after studying business administration, and the youngest, Maribel, is supposed to study first. The women worry about their father. After eating together, they argue about their attitudes towards life in the kitchen until Maribel breaks a plate. The sisters break more plates and then sing together.

Martin meets the widow Hortensia of the same age, who is increasingly interested in the single widower. He also befriends her daughter Yolanda and her granddaughter.

Leticia gets closer to the physical education teacher Orlando Castillo. Soon she will receive love letters that please her very much. After reading a letter, she interrupts a game and kisses the surprised Orlando in public. It turns out that he didn't write the letters at all, they were rather a joke of his students. Orlando comforts Leticia by saying that he would have liked to have written the letters, then he kisses her. Leticia takes Orlando home with her and introduces him to the surprised family as her husband.

Carmen is to become the managing director of a company in Barcelona . Maribel frightens Martin with the announcement that she wants to take a year or two off before studying. One of the cooks, a friend of Martin's, passes out in the restaurant's kitchen. When he returns to the restaurant after a hospital stay, he dies.

During a dinner, Martin says that this time he has something to announce; he wanted to marry again. The present Hortensia expects a marriage proposal, but Martin asks for the hand of her daughter Yolanda. The daughters are delighted after the initial shock, the angry Hortensia insults Martin as a "pervert".

Martin takes Carmen to the airport and says goodbye to her. Soon after, she appears at Martin's house and says she wouldn't fly to Barcelona after all. She is preparing an exclusive meal for him.

Carmen is later seen as the restaurant's new head chef. She entertains the assembled family. Yolanda is pregnant and is expecting a girl.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on August 24, 2001 that the script showed the excessive number of authors. He described Tortilla Soup as a typical family film in which the participants are single at the beginning and married at the end. Ebert wrote that the "good" cast would bring this formula to life; He praised the "magical heat" (magic hot) the presentation of Hector Elizondo .

The Berliner Zeitung described the comedy as "easily digestible food".

“Sensual comedy about family, food and the conflict between the generations, the characters of which are developed in a pattern. As a result, the momentum of the staging is increasingly recognizable as an end in itself. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Elizabeth Peña won the 2002 Film Awards American Latino Media Arts Award, for the film itself, the director Maria Ripoll , the screenwriters and Hector Elizondo , Jacqueline Obradors and Paul Rodriguez were nominated.

The film, which won the Imagen Foundation Award in 2002, was also nominated for the Casting Society of America Award .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Tortilla Soup - The Spice of Life . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2003 (PDF; test number: 93 230 K).
  2. ↑ Tortilla Soup - The Spice of Life. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 14, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used