Kochen ist Chefsache (2012)

Kochen ist Chefsache: Directed by Daniel Cohen. With Jean Reno, Michaël Youn, Raphaëlle Agogué, Julien Boisselier. A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group’s new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.

“Le Chef (2012)u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBoy are there a lot of these kinds of cooking movies out there, and most of them fall into a familiar pattern. Luckily itu0026#39;s a pattern that works—in that feel good, root for the underdog way.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThis is a very lightweight comedy, and the hero is a chef with unusual talents, but also with a lovely fiancée who is getting impatient with his other love—cooking. So he tries to get a real job, and of course that doesnu0026#39;t work and he ends up cooking on the sly. Which leads to a feeling heu0026#39;s u0026quot;cheatingu0026quot; on his girl, at least mentally, and so on and so on.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe lovely parts of the movie are actually the cooking parts, where you see his talent come alive. There are the usual critics, the mean boss, the underdog friends who are there in a pinch, and so forth. Yes, itu0026#39;s a formula. And itu0026#39;s totally feel good fun.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAnd thereu0026#39;s nothing more to it than that! Bon appetite. And donu0026#39;t confuse this title with u0026quot;Chefu0026quot; which is an American twist on the same basic formula.”