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February 24, 2015 "Please retry" | — | 1 | $38.04 | $3.38 |
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Genre | Foreign |
Format | Dolby, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled, Color, DVD |
Contributor | Lester Chen, Ang Lee, Sihung Lung, Yang Kuei-Mei, Sylvia Chang, Wang Yu-Wen, Winston Chao, Wu Chien-lien, Ah-Leh Gua See more |
Language | Mandarin Chinese |
Runtime | 2 hours and 4 minutes |
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From celebrated director Ang Lee (The Ice Storm, Sense and Sensibility) comes a movieso visually stunning that it spans the "beautiful balance of elementsmellow, harmonious and poignantly funny" (The Washington Post). This "charming study of love, family and tradition" (Leonard Maltin) "tickles both mind and body" (Movie Reviews UK). Trouble is cooking forwidower and master chef Chu (Sihung Lung) who's about to discover that no matter how dazzling and delicious his culinary creations might be, they're no match for the libidinous whims of his three beautiful but rebellious daughters. A master in the kitchen, Chu is at a loss when it comes to the ingredients of being a father. Every Sunday, he whips up a delicacy of dishes for his ungrateful daughters, who are so self-consumed that they don't see his attempt at showing them lovegastronomically.So, as relationships sour and communications break down, Chu concocts a sure-fire recipe that will bring his family back together: He creates his own love affair to rival his daughters' affections!
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.85:1
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : Unrated (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 Ounces
- Director : Ang Lee
- Media Format : Dolby, Closed-captioned, NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled, Color, DVD
- Run time : 2 hours and 4 minutes
- Release date : March 5, 2002
- Actors : Sylvia Chang, Ah-Leh Gua, Winston Chao, Lester Chen, Yang Kuei-Mei
- Subtitles: : English, Spanish, French
- Language : Unqualified
- Studio : MGM World Films
- ASIN : B00005JKG1
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #39,244 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #260 in Foreign Films (Movies & TV)
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There are many wonderful themes explored in this complex film which to be fully appreciated should be viewed several times for maximum enjoyment. There is love, hope, survival, lonliness, friendship, death, betrayal, family values, and so much more. There is so much depth to this film that a lot can and likely will be missed, despite the fact it is a two hour film, it zooms by very fast. Mr. Chen's role is much deeper than one realizes, so the unfocused mind is overwhelmed by sensual data. Truly, several viewings will be needed and this is realized *only* after having viewed the film two or three times. The middle and most beautiful daughter is a company executive for an airline. She is highly successful and offered a promotion to become a Vice President for the firm but it involves moving to the Amsterdam office. She is a modern career woman and carrying on an affair with a free-spirited Chinese artist. Little does she know what tricks her boyfriend has in store for her while she plays the role of single successful woman. Her life seems the most on track and the film reveals just how much of an illusion this viewpoint is. The eldest daughter is more plain looking. She graduated with a college major in chemistry and teaches at a local boy's high school. She uses religion as an escape and became a Christian. She listens to Christian hymns even when waiting for the bus and traveling to and from work. Her "old maid" status is not lost on her teenaged male students who play a practical joke on her which went overboard and caused her great embarrassment. Amazingly enough, the new boy's volleyball coach greets the chemistry teacher and asks her to attend the team's games. He rides a motor cycle and is very cool. She does not know what to make of his overtures. It is when the students in her chemistry class play the practical joke on her that Chou Ming Dao, the coach comes to her rescue and a different kind of *chemistry* occurs between them. Something magical and unexpected develops. The oldest plain daughter engages in uncharacteristic behaviors but due to her Christian beliefs, she follows her heart as well as the tenets of her faith but the outcome is totally unpredictable. She shocks her family with her announcement at the Sunday traditional family meal ... The third daughter is the youngest. She works at fast food restaurant and unlike her older sisters shows no promise to become college educated. She has a best friend whose boyfriend keeps hanging around the restaurant. The friend indicates she is making her boyfriend suffer and she feigns not being interested in him, very convincingly so. The youngest daughter advises the young man on love and matters of the heart, to the point of his realizing *she* is a better catch than his original love. There are many unpredictable twists and turns in the plot as each daughter works out her life circumstances based on her own interests and values ...
Meanwhile they are hoping that their dad will get together with Jin Rong's mother who returned to Taiwan after living in the USA. Jin Rong is a pretty young neighbor who is undergoing a divorce from her husband who cheated by having an affair. Her mother is returned to live with her and help raise Shan Shan her school aged daughter. Her mother could not get used to the culture shock of her other daughter having married outside the Chinese culture. It is quite clear, Jin Rong's mother has designs on Mr. Chen. Mr. Chen's daughters are encouraging these feelings. Mr. Chen pulls off one of the biggest unexpected and unpredictable surprise endings which truly makes this film one of the best I have viewed in a long time. This is a most highly recommended film. Erika Borsos [pepper flower]
I loved the movie so much when I saw it on Netflix that I bought it on Amazon. Anyway, the movie is entirely in Mandarian Chinese, with English subtitles. It was filmed in Taiwan. Some ramblings of another reviewer kept going on and on about Tortilla Soup - to that, I want to say this, that mediocre film Tortilla Soup was a remake of THIS movie! Just because you saw that movie first doesn't mean it was made first; this movie was made in 1994 (hello! you do the math!) - I just had to get that off my chest because I mean, really, when they remade it, they didn't even bother changing the script! Talk about plagiarism!
Anyhoo, this is a great movie to show Chinese culture, for those of you who are curious - or who love movies (like me) of ethnic cultures (like Moonstruck, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Fiddler on the Roof, etc.). I loved the movie so much I didn't even care that I had to read the subtitles, it didn't take away from the brilliance of the movie at all... I think it was the fact that my mouth was watering so much!
This is the BEST movie that shows Chinese culture via food - just so you know, the movie starts off with the father, a master chef in Taiwan, Mr. Chu, making the ritual Sunday family dinner. The five minute filming of the beginning of the film where it shows such a detailed cooking is so rich, and makes you sooo HUNGRY! I always get so hungry after this movie, and nothing ever satisfied my appetite unless I have authentic Chinese food (and I'm not talking about the take-out kind either).
Anyway, this movie is not a drama - it's a light, family comedy; but not those stupid slapstick comedies like Will Ferrell or Jim Carrey does; it's a realistic comedy (think of a cooking show on the Food Network with a plot line).
It's set in Taiwan but everyone can relate to it - career/workplace drama, romantic struggles, children growing up and having their own lives, etc. Each and every character is well-developed and completely lovable and the viewer definitely identifies with each one. I consider it less of a family drama and more of a slice-of-life story. There's no huge painful blowup, and the ending is quiet but happy without being sappy. It's also a food movie who's food prep scenes are as delicious as Julie and Julia, Ratatouille, etc.
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J'aime beaucoup ce film, pour le voyage culinaire qu'il propose à travers les festins préparés par Chu "qui ne sait faire que des choses compliquées", et par le traitement en finesse et la complexité sous-jacente des sentiments des trois filles de monsieur Chu. Comme le dit l'une des filles, dans cette famille on communique par la nourriture et plus les mets sont raffinés et moins on parle. Il va falloir attendre que le père Chu perde le goût pour que la famille retrouve la parole. La cuisine est l'élément central du film. Pour l'anecdote, plus d'une centaine de recettes différentes ont été préparées pour le film et ont requis la participation de trois chefs et de nombreux assistants. La scène d'ouverture a nécessité une semaine de préparation, et rien que lorsque Jia-Chien à la fin du film prépare des crêpes, 2 chefs et 3 assistants étaient à la manœuvre.
Il m'aura fallu attendre longtemps sa sortie en DVD, mais c'est avec le même plaisir qu'il y a 20 ans que je l'ai enfin revu.
Nevertheless I am authoritative to comment on my experience of the seller's delivery service. The delivery time scale was 2 weeks. I consider this to be good for order from US, delivery to UK. Taking into consideration that the postal cost is charged, rather than free, the delivery time scale could better, in my view. So I rate this 4 *.