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Mostly Martha
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0097363408048
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Languages: English (Subtitled), German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: D340804D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 18, 2003
Running Time: 106 minutes
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
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Editorial Review:
Mostly Martha is a rich addition to the recent banquet of movies about food. Martha (Martina Gedeck), the domineering chef at a fancy restaurant, has her rigid routine broken when her sister dies in a car wreck, leaving behind her 9-year-old daughter Lina (Maxime Foerste). Martha takes the girl in, but has no gift for maternal expression; she offers Lina food, but Lina refuses to eat. Meanwhile, her control over her kitchen is threatened when her boss hires a buoyant Italian named Mario (Sergio Castellitto) to assist, and Martha finds herself flailing in an effort to reestablish control of her life. While Mostly Martha may not hold many surprises, the writing, direction, and particularly the acting are as sumptuous and sensual as the cooking and eating. The relationship between Martha and Lina is portrayed with all its awkwardness and complications intact; the result is wonderfully affecting. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Loved it...
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 ... Read More
Rating: - Tastes Delicious!
This movie is great! I'm a MS & HS German teacher and I was able to show this to my first year German students. Ties in nicely to curriculum involving food/cooking or just as an entertaining movie to show in the target language. It's completely school-appropriate, with the exception of two curse words in the English subtitles (which can easily be momentarily covered). A great price for a German-language, region 1 DVD!
Rating:  - Great acting, great music, yummy food
"Mostly Martha" is an endearing film about a chef, out of touch with her emotions, who has to take care of her orphaned niece, deal with the death of her sister, her issues with control and the new chef in her kitchen. This is a great movie: enjoyable, funny at times and enchanting. The soundtrack is excellent and the food presented makes your mouth water. Hmmmm...
This movie is the precursor for No Reservations with Catherine Zeta Jones. Although the movies are basically the same (same ... Read More
Rating: - Bejeweled
This movie glints. There are so many perfect, shining, moments everyone must have their favorite. Mine is when the kid's teacher is told she wants to go to Italy, but it's hard to narrow things down in a move that excels in just about everything. One un-perfect moment is her anxiety attack when her uber-tidy kitchen is demolished. No professional chef [not even an Italian one!] would have done this and she wouldn't have overreacted this way.
See it. Love it. Buy it. Good work ... Read More
Rating: - Culinary Distress
This movie centers around "chefs" and their renown eccentric behavior. Fun to watch as Martha learns that there is life besides the restaurant and fancy food. She learns to deal with all of a sudden becoming a parent to her sisters daughter. Interesting to see how those two learn to get along.
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