Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2004 / Politiki kouzina / Greece 2003
Succulently shot story, set across 40 years in Istanbul and Athens, about a Greek man´s emotional ties to the two cities and cultures.
Tasty production values and accessible, colorful subject matter elevate food movie A Touch of Spice to a plat du jour in the Greek cinema menu. Using cuisine as a metaphor for national identity and personal feelings, bittersweet pic about a man, Fanis (George Corraface), torn between his ethnicity (Greek) and the country of his birth (Turkey) makes its points lightly and entertainingly. Structured as a long flashback as a group of the protag´s old friends arrive from Istanbul for a welcome meal, the story, like any Greco-Turkish meal, is divided into three segs - Appetizers (Istanbul, 1959), Main Courses (Athens, 1964) and Desserts (the present day). It´s the players, both kids and adults, who give the movie its character, especially Tassos Bandis´ philosophical old grandfather.
Derek Elley
108 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Tassos Boulmetis
/ Screenplay Tassos Boulmetis
/ Dir. of Photography Takis Zervoulakos
/ Music Evanthia Reboutsika
/ Editor George Mavropsaridis
/ Producer Lily Papadopoulos, Artemi Skouloudi
/ Production Village Roadshow Productions Hellas SA
/ Cast George Corraface, Ieroklis Mihailidis, Renia Louizidou, Tamer Karadagli, Basak Koklukaya, Tassos Bandis, Stelios Mainas, Markos Osse, Yockse Gildis
/ Contact Bioscop (Magicbox a.s.), Capitol Films, Village Roadshow Productions Hellas SA
Bioscop (Magicbox a.s.)
Na Klikovce 7, 140 00, Praha 4
Czech Republic
Phone: +420 221 436 100
E-mail: [email protected]
Capitol Films
, W2 1LA, London
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 207 298 6200
Fax: +44 207 298 6201
E-mail: [email protected]
Village Roadshow Productions Hellas SA
, 141 21, Athens
Greece
Phone: +30 210 270 48 00
Fax: +30 210 270 48 88
Tomáš Hoffman
Producer
Ondřej Zach
Film Institution Rep., Producer
Artemis Skouloudi
Tassos Boulmetis
Avye Leventis
Georges Corraface
Festival Organizer
Marina Kokolodemetraki
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