Mostly Martha

Name: Mostly Martha
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Released: August 16, 2002
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Maxime Foerste, Sergio Castellitto

2002

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Paramount Classics | Release Date: August 16, 2002 | PG

Starring: Martina Gedeck, Maxime Foerste, Sergio Castellitto

Summary: Martha (Gedeck) is a head chef for an upscale restaurant who relies on her culinary skill as her primary means of communication. When her sister dies in a car accident, her orderly world falls apart as she has to care for her eight-year-old niece, a girl who proves as resolute and single-minded as her aunt. (Paramount Classics)

Director: Sandra Nettelbeck

Genre(s): Drama, Comedy, Romance

Rating: PG

Runtime: 109 min

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A.O. Scott

Extremely enjoyable, though a few degrees shy of perfection. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

Thanks to Echer, Nettelbeck and this delicious movie, I was able to hear "Country" and the other Jarrett tunes in scene after scene - heightening moods, lyricizing action and making Hamburg seem like a wintry love song. Predictable or not, that's often as good as it gets. Read full review

Paula Nechak

Nettelbeck has created a movie recipe that ladles great dollops of dessertlike joy and equally dark tragedy around her strong-willed heroine. It wouldn't work without actors capable of finding vulnerability, humanity and kindness in sometimes inaccessible characters. Read full review

Lawrence Toppman

If you liked "My Big Fat Greek Wedding," you're on safe ground here -- Next time, I'd like to see Gedeck serve up a hearty meal instead of a tasty but unfilling appetizer. Read full review

Mick LaSalle

Little gem. Read full review

Megan Lehmann

The plot is thin as consomme, and the thudding score is distracting, but the heartfelt storytelling and Michael Bertl's disarming cinematography make this a food film to savor. Read full review

Manohla Dargis

It's a drag how Nettelbeck sees working women -- or at least this working woman -- for whom she shows little understanding; there's a puritan, even punitive, cast to the way she sees her character, whose pathology she digs at with the tenacity of a truffle hound. Read full review

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