A restaurant, bar, club by definition has to be fun, especially if it’s run by a Greek. Troubles of entrepreneurship, like health codes, back taxes, a temperamental chef, a girlfriend moving to China, an aching back, a no-account brother, and even a man who will stop a nothing to get him to sell the restaurant are all par for the course. This German film made by Turkish/German filmmaker Fatih Akin is a fast paced, tightly scripted, romp through multi-cultural Hamburg which will keep you rooting for the good guy and hoping he’ll open a restaurant called Soul Food in your neighborhood.
I first saw Soul Kitchen at the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival. It's opening on September 3 at the Embarcadero Cinema in San Francisco.
Soul Kitchen
Director: Fatih Akin
Writers: Fatih Akink, Adam Bousdoukos
Cast: Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birol Unel, Anna Bederke, Pheline Roggan, Lucas Gregorowicz, Wotan Wilke Mohring, Dorka Gryllus, Demir Gokgol
Time: 99 min.
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