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Soul Kitchen
Director Fatih Akın takes a sabbatical from the intended trilogy that he started with the excellent Head-On to try his hand at comedy. Head-On was critically acclaimed and rightfully so, part two of the trilogy, The Edge of Heaven continued with his themes of love, death and the Devil but due to personal reason he decided to take a break before wrapping the series up.
Soul Kitchen is far from a throwaway holiday project and focuses mostly on family, the ones you get from birth and the ones that grow around you as you live your life. The hero of the piece is Zinos played by Adam Bousdoukos, who has worked with Akin before. He’s a salt of the earth kind of guy who runs an ad hoc restaurant called the Soul Kitchen.
His lack of business acumen is no real deterrent, as his clientele loves his thrown together cuisine. Due to circumstance he hires Shayn Weiss played by another Akin alumni, Birol Ünel. He’s a temperamental master chief who is as quick with his tongue as he is with his knives. Together they create a hot spot restaurant that features more than its fair share of street cool. The restaurant’s ambiance is added to with some great background music and the films soundtrack is outstanding.
It has an oddly focused narrative at times with certain elements of the story that fade in and out of view but this only adds to its appeal. It’s great to have a comedy that doesn’t do everything by the book and while being a bit too predictable at times it has such a big heart, it is easy to forgive it its slight transgressions.
Rob Hudson
www.soul-kitchen-film.com
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