Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2009 Venice Film Festival, Fatih Akin's Soul Kitchen is a comedy set at a Hamburg restaurant inhabited by a disparate group of Hamburgese.
At IFC, Stephen Saito calls Soul Kitchen "a lark, but an enjoyable one. The film sees the director of Head On and The Edge of Heaven doing schtick for the first time — not as odd a transition as one might think from his previous dramas, which have in common a deeply felt human touch and sense of interconnection."
"As far as European comedies go," writes Michael Koresky at indieWIRE, "it’s fairly by the numbers, assembling a motley crew of emphatically crazy characters for a rollicking jamboree of wily folks meant to stand in for the New Europe. But the tonic goes down easy this time, even as the plot grows increasingly merciless in its need to entertain its audience."
Soul Kitchen stars Moritz Bleibtreu, Birol Ünel, Adam Bousdoukos, Anna Bederke, and Pheline Roggan.
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I wonder why faith akin would sign the petition to free roman polanski a child molestor? I saw his name on the list. Oh yeah all the names of the actors that signed it is floating all over the internet, so everyone will know who supports a child rapists..
I'm curious to see how Fatih Akin handles comedy. His dramas tend to be very heavy.