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CHEF’S SPECIAL
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DIR. NACHO G. VELILLA COMEDY (TBC) SPAIN 2008 111 MINS
WITH JAVIER CÁMARA, LOLA DUEÑAS, FERNANDO TEJERO, BENJAMIN VICUNA
WINNER - AUDIENCE AWARD FOR BEST FILM AND BEST ACTOR (JAVIER CÁMARA) -
MALAGA SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL
The gala opening night selection of the 2009 Festival, Nacho G. Velilla’s
CHEF’S SPECIAL is a delicious farce about a headstrong chef – a huge critical and box office hit on its local release that is set to delight audiences here.
Maxi (Javier Cámara) is an openly gay head chef and proud owner of Xantarella, an haute-cuisine restaurant in the trendy Madrid neighbourhood of Chueca. Intent on earning his restaurant a much-revered Michelin star, he runs his successful kitchen of foul-mouthed and unlucky-in-love staff with panic-stricken fervor. That is until Maxi’s regimented world is turned upside down one day, when he has to take in his estranged kids (the result of a sham marriage). Less than pleased with these new additions to his life, Maxi’s situation only gets worse when a handsome footballer named Horacio (Benjamin Vicuna), moves in across the hall…
CHEF’S SPECIAL is high entertainment, overflowing with the winning ingredients of wit, vivacity and laugh-out-loud comic timing. The always-compelling Cámara (a 2009 Festival guest) leads a terrific cast that also includes Fernando Tejero and Lola Dueñas.
CHEF’S SPECIAL is a delicious farce about a headstrong chef – a huge critical and box office hit on its local release that is set to delight audiences here.
Maxi (Javier Cámara) is an openly gay head chef and proud owner of Xantarella, an haute-cuisine restaurant in the trendy Madrid neighbourhood of Chueca. Intent on earning his restaurant a much-revered Michelin star, he runs his successful kitchen of foul-mouthed and unlucky-in-love staff with panic-stricken fervor. That is until Maxi’s regimented world is turned upside down one day, when he has to take in his estranged kids (the result of a sham marriage). Less than pleased with these new additions to his life, Maxi’s situation only gets worse when a handsome footballer named Horacio (Benjamin Vicuna), moves in across the hall…
CHEF’S SPECIAL is high entertainment, overflowing with the winning ingredients of wit, vivacity and laugh-out-loud comic timing. The always-compelling Cámara (a 2009 Festival guest) leads a terrific cast that also includes Fernando Tejero and Lola Dueñas.
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