Mostly Martha (film)

Bella Martha is a feature film made ​​in 2001 by the German director Sandra Nettelbeck, who also wrote the screenplay. The main role was played by Martina Gedeck.

Action

The secluded Martha Klein works as a chef in a French restaurant and is convinced to be the best cook in town. She is a perfectionist and has no other purpose in life than cooking.

When her sister dies in a car accident, Martha takes her eight year old niece Lina in on, because of their father is only known that he is Italian and Giuseppe means. Martha is sleeping in the living room and provides Lina her bedroom as a separate kingdom available. Lina feels in the new situation not feel well and misses her mother. She eats only rarely. Martha Lina promises to make inquiries about her father.

As reinforcement and temporary replacement Martha, the restaurant owner, a fun-loving and slightly eccentric Italian Mario. Martha is first little impressed by the fact of having competition in her kitchen and to be confronted with new pasta and gnocchi dishes. Mario admired vice versa Martha's cooking skills. After bad experiences with a babysitter Martha Lina takes you to the restaurant, where it turns out that Mario is good with children and Lina to bring more and eat regularly. The Italian cuisine tastes this much better than the overly refined dishes from Martha. Mario says Martha on the head that he does not want to displace as a chef and has threatened to leave if she does not agree with him. Hesitantly, she declared their intention to work together with him and begins to see him in a different light.

Following an attempt Linas, uproot and travel to Italy with her father promises Martha, her one wish, no matter what it is. Lina wishes that she and Mario for Martha to cook at home. In the time where Mario is visiting, cooking and playing with Lina, Martha and Mario fall in love and finally a couple.

With the help of Mario Martha takes Linas father and asks for him to take Lina to Italy. One day this is at the door and pick up his daughter. Martha Lina missing but after a short time. It has been found in the relationship with her ​​and Mario a new purpose in life. It announces the restaurant and continues with Mario to Italy to visit Lina. In the credits you can see how she takes Lina back to himself, opened a restaurant in Italy and Mario married.

Reviews

"In addition to in terms of directing actors and dialogue very individual touch of the film, the clichés in the plot is not always avoids offers the cinematic perfectionism mainly because of the kitchen scenes. Cooking is central to the action, and we find ourselves repeatedly behind the scenes of a high-level scene - premises again. The lustful voyeurism, which can let off steam in the kitchen here, will, charming untermimiert of the delicacy, with successive releases of Sandra Nettelbeck Martina Gedeck and Sergio Castellitto Eros. "

However, " Sandra Nettelbeck's film resists the cinematic gluttony and pays attention instead on the slim narrative line: a little love, a little friendship, a pinch of tragedy. Nevertheless, it is not Schmalhans chef, but the charming Martina Gedeck. "

" The ingredients for the first feature film of director Sandra Nettelbeck experienced TV are indeed refined little and their images do not necessarily fill the canvas. Nevertheless, the mixture of sentimentality, culinary interludes and a zest for life is palatable and easily digestible. And on top of that makes appetite for good pasta. "

Awards

  • Martina Gedeck has won a German Film Award 2002, as well as an award from the Association of German Film Critics for her performance in 2003. She was also nominated for a European Film Awards 2002.
  • Sergio Castellitto won the European Film Award in 2002 for his performance.
  • In 2002, the film was nominated for the German Film Award for Best Feature Film.
  • 2003, the film received a nomination for the Spanish Goya Film Awards in the category Best European film.

Trivia

  • Sergio Castellitto shot his scenes in Italian, as his knowledge of German was not sufficient and was synchronized in the original German version of Frank Glaubrecht.
  • In the sequence where old video footage of Lina and her deceased mother is shown, the director plays the mother.
  • In the English -speaking world of the film under the title of Mostly Martha ( Mostly Martha ), in Italy under the title Ricette d' amore (Love Recipes ) was expelled.
  • In July 2007, the film was remade in America under the title No Reservations with Catherine Zeta -Jones in the lead role. Thus, the producers responded to the commercial success of surprise Mostly Martha in the U.S., where the film grossed more than four million U.S. dollars.
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