Favorite films for everyone who loves good food as much as we do
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday … More and more restaurants close their doors on these days. Time to watch a favorite film set in the kitchen again.
For all those who are passionate about food
We can’t get enough of these movies. They are all about good food and careful preparation, which requires that you love what you prepare.
Beloved cook
If you missed this film by French-Vietnamese director Tran Anh Hung, which was shown in arthouse cinemas at the beginning of the year, you can now enjoy it as a stream from some providers.
Juliette Binoche starts her work early in the morning in the vegetable garden, harvesting lettuce, which she then blanches, quenches, carefully wrings out and braises with brown butter and veal.
The scenes are not edited for a TikTok audience. The director celebrates every move in the kitchen with a lot of time and close-ups. It’s not about sprinting through a cooking duel, but enjoying a cooking duet set in a country house in France in 1885.
The Taste of Things, 2023 © BFA, Alamy Stock Photo
You can literally smell the veal loin being taken out of the oven and long to enjoy it on your plate.
Pierre Gagnaire, the famous French chef, advised the film team. No more can be revealed. Here you can find our favorite film“Beloved Chef“, whose original title is “The Taste of Things”.
Jiro and the best sushi in the world
Achieving top performance in the kitchen is hardly possible without discipline and years of training. This requires passion and the conviction to consistently follow your own path.
The hero in this film is a 90-year-old sushi master who runs a small sushi restaurant in Tokyo, which is located on the mezzanine level of an entrance to a subway station.
While some sushi restaurants in Europe try to vary the sushi preparation with unusual combinations, sauces, smoked nuts or popcorn, Master Jiro sticks to very traditional, very simple sushi creations.
The fresh fish, the sushi rice and the homemade sauce are the focus here. Nothing more and nothing less. The result on the counter of the restaurant radiates absolute freshness. The Michelin Guide rates the perfection of simplicity with stars.
For anyone who loves Japan and sushi and likes people with passion, this movie is a real treat. You can find the movie on these platforms.
She Chef
The young Austrian Agnes Karrasch is fascinated by top cuisine. After completing her training at the Steirereck restaurant in Vienna, she would like to develop further as part of the so-called stage (unpaid work in a top restaurant to learn and get to know other styles of cuisine).
She works for Joachim Wissler at the highly decorated restaurant Vendôme in Bergisch-Gladbach, moves from there to the Spanish Michelin-starred restaurant Disfrutar in Barcelona and finally to the restaurant Koks on the Faroe Islands.
The portrait of this dedicated, likeable chef offers many insights into top gastronomy and, with the Faroe Islands, also dreamlike landscape shots that not only make you dream of your next restaurant bookings but also of traveling.
Documentary film ‘She Chef’ © Camino Filmverleih
Agnes Karrasch also sees the personal downsides of cooking at star level, which hardly allows for a private life, but still opts for long working hours, which are fascinating and challenging every day compared to regular working hours.
A movie for foodies who enjoy seeing the elaborate preparations and cooking in the top kitchen in detail and in real time.
For many minutes, this film has no dialog, but watches the chefs at work, as they themselves say “dancing in a confined space”, meticulously coordinated and accompanied by the announcements of which dish is to be prepared for which table.
Kiss the Cook
There’s a lot to like about this light-hearted movie: an ambitious chef gets into a dispute with the owner of the New York restaurant where he works and clashes with the city’s most important restaurant critic.
As everything else is not going well with his young son from his divorced marriage, for whom he hardly has any time, he flies to Las Vegas, buys a run-down food truck, refurbishes it and sets off on a trip to New Orleans with a former employee and his young son to eat what he considers to be the world’s best fritters.
From the food truck, they sell Cuban sandwiches, which become a hit thanks to his son’s social media activities.
A light film that leaves the supporting roles to Dustin Hoffmann and Scarlett Johansson and instead focuses on love, passion and the desire for excellent fast food.
Always good, especially on a cold, rainy summer’s day.
Magical temple kitchen
Our fifth favorite takes us to a Buddhist temple in South Korea. In harmony with nature and the seasons, the nuns there cultivate a simple and delicious vegetarian cuisine that makes you wonder which foods are actually good for our bodies.
It is a pleasure to watch the nuns preparing meals in an idyllic landscape, to look inside and then to go to the bookshelf to take another look at the book with the Ayurveda recommendations.
A wonderful movie, pure aesthetics, where you certainly won’t be reaching for chips and popcorn.
Cover picture © GloriousMe 2024
