Mostly Martha
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Movie Reviews of Mostly Martha
Movie Review: This Movie is Not About Food But Love...
Summary: 5 Stars
To say that Mostly Martha is a movie about food is limiting it to something less than what it really is. It is a beautiful movie about what it means to happy in life (Its more than just a dream job). The movie is relevant to cooks and non-cooks alike and is a good date movie for the romanitics out there.
This movie uses food as metaphor on several levels to express how each character sees love. Martha (Martina Gedneck) believes that if you present something (a dish) well with your heart in it, the people receiving it naturally should love it regardless. If the person doesnt love it she is naturally hurt. Lina (Maxime Foerste, she's great!) believes that since the death of her mother she can't love, thus she can't eat. Lastly Mario, the fantastic Itallian Chef, believes food and love are a part of a good life. He exudes this principle and gets on with everyone especially well except for Martha. See the movie and find out how all of this works out..
This movie is really beautiful. If you are worried that the movie is going to be some iconoclastic german work that is going to require a lot of reading, fear not. It is great for all audiences. Reading subtitles isnt bad and if you are learning german the language is easy to understand. I recommend this film highly!
-- Ted Murena
Movie Review: Book me on a Airplane for Germany NOW!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is sure to do wonders for tourism in Germany!! Movie is about Martha who is single and a chef in a Restaurant in Germany, she is the CHEF, NOT the owner. If you ever saw {Big Night} then you will appreciate this movie. It doesn't go into a lot of the food preparation as sayyyyy {Eat, Drink, Man Woman} but it is still a very good movie.
It reminded me of {Baby Boom} with Diane Keaton. Martha's sister dies and she has to take care of her niece, Martha has some issues of her own, the niece doesn't eat Martha's cooking, and the Owner of the Restaurant is getting tired of Martha attitude in the kitchen. Martha's Sous Chef (layman term "assistant") is pregnant and will be going on maternity leave, the Owner hires this chef from Italy. NOTE!!! TWO COOKS IN A KITCHEN WILL NEVER WORK. Martha is trying to adjust her life for her niece, until she can get a hold of the nieces father, she has a cute neighbor downstairs that she is "somewhat" interested in, and she is having work-related conflicts with the new Chef. LOL
This movie was great, my 12 year old daughter followed the sub-title very well and she even enjoyed it. There are some funny moments and some serious ones. Again I say this would be a safe pick for a weekend flick.... oh and the Scenery Hamburg was just gorgeous. (sp)
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Movie Review: A Visual, Emotional, and Culinary Feast
Summary: 5 Stars
MOSTLY MARTHA is a fine German film that delivers another gourmet kitchen drama to the field of food-driven stories. Martha is the gourmet Chef of the Lido, a spectacularly appointed restaurant somewhere in Germany. Martha (the beautiful and talented Martina Gedeck) is admired but has great difficulty relating to people on more than a profesional level. She is in therapy (a sterling portrayal of a therapist by August Zirner) to help her deal with her temper tantrums and find her inner self. Her ordered world is disrupted first by the Lido's addition of a hilariously warm Italian cook named Mario (Sergio Castellitto) and second by the sudden death of her sister, leaving her in charge of an independent 9 year old niece Lina (fully realized by young actress Maxime Foerste). Lina begins to recover the loss of her mother (and distaste for her guardian aunt) when Mario enters the home with food and tenderness that in the long run is healing for both Martha and Lina. Director Sandra Nettelbeck stirs these ingredients and the result is a film that touches the funny bone as well as the heart. The filming is tasty - especialy the kitchen scenes. This is a first class delctable main course, recommended by the Chef (in all those many guises!)Movie Review: Loved it...
Summary: 5 Stars
German film with English subtitles. Story centered around Martha, a 30-something, unmarried chef who works at a high end restaurant in Hamburg - and is considered by her boss to be the 2nd best chef in the city (much to Martha's chagrin). Martha is obsessed with her cooking and is a perfectionist. She's high strung, compulsive, obsessive and more comfortable with her food and cooking than with people - she is cool and distant with most she interacts with. She takes criticism about her cooking personally and attacks customers who complain. Martha comes to care for her 8-year old niece (Lina) - who is suddenly orphaned from her Mother. Lina grieves and rebels against Martha who struggles to deal with the child. Lina disrupts the strict regime of Martha's workmanlike life and forces Martha to take stock in what's important in life. Lina forces an spontaneous, care-free Italian man into Martha's life and sparks fly from her repressed inner self.
If you love food and its preparation - all surrounded and wrapped in just-right-music and beautiful cinematography (of the kitchen, of the food, of the restaurant, of Hamburg streets, of her apartment) - this is a soothing, charming, warm all-human film. Loved it...
Movie Review: A Taste Of Motherhood
Summary: 5 Stars
One of the most sensual film scenes of recent memory occurs towards the end of "Mostly Martha." Martha, a tightly wound, anal-retentive chef ( the good ones always are), is being wooed by her assistant chef, Mario. She's blindfolded and Mario is asking her to name the ingredients in a dish that he is spoon-feeding her, while a solo piano version of "Never Let Me Go" is playing in the background (Never Let me Go, I'd be so lost if you went away...). This scene crackles with a kind of intelligent sexual fire: one that smolders between two people wary of yet inexorably drawn to each other.Women Executive Chef's are rare, even in America but in Germany, where Martha lives, they are rarer. Martha's life is compartmentalized: she works, she sleeps, she works. This is great for her employer, but not good for Martha. Then one day Lina comes into her life because Lina's mother and Martha's sister is dead. And so Martha's life changes.
Set against the background of a career in the food business, but not about food per se, "Mostly Martha" is a sad, wry, quiet, contemplative film about how our life can change over night, without warning: the test is not only how well we handle it but how wisely we carry on.