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Chef's Special

Country: Spain, Language: Spanish, 111 mins

Original Title

Fuera de Carta
  • Director: Nacho G. Velilla
  • Writer: Oriol Capel; Antonio Sánchez
  • Producer: Oriol Capel; Silvia García-Calvo

CGiii Comment

Dreary titles and music do not make for a good beginning.

The main problem with this film is the comedy, no correction, farce - it's just not funny. Without it, there is a credible story.

But, instead we get (yet another) cheap, clumsy Almodovar clone - the neurotic over-bearing woman has been done to death in Spanish films.

The homophobic rhetoric is constant - and offensive.

Velilla manages to make the whole thing look and feel like a soap opera - lurching from the farcical to the serious - with as much success as a inflatable anchor.

Over-done, over-played, badly written and cheaply directed.

Nothing special.


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The(ir) Blurb...

Javier Cimara (Talk to Her) stars as Chef Maxi, a culinary genius/drama queen with too much on his plate.

Cast & Characters

Javier Cámara as Maxi;
Lola Dueñas as Alex;
Fernando Tejero as Ramiro;
Benjamín Vicuña as Horacio;
Chus Lampreave as Celia;
Luis Varela as Jaime;
Cristina Marcos as Marta;
Alexandra Jiménez as Paula;
Junio Valverde as Edu;
Alejandra Lorenzo as Alba;
Mariano Peña as Álvaro;
Fernando Albizu as Valero;
Carlos Leal as Pascal Sánchez;
Alberto Jo Lee as Dae-Su;
Jesús Fuente as Director del colegio