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Reviews Counted:13
Fresh:4
Rotten:9
Average Rating:4.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 48 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: A young boy growing up in Turkey learns how to cook thanks to some lessons from his grandfather, but when he returns to the country as an adult--and after becoming a successful chef--he realizes... [More]
A Touch of Spice has a few imaginative and amusing scenes as well as all the right ingredients of a romantic dramedy, but those ingredients merely simmer without coming to a boil. It often feels contrived and convoluted while its variety of ingredi
Since it's going to make you mighty hungry anyway, I'd suggest skipping A Touch of Spice and going straight to dinner.
A lovely sense of community and family permeates, and Corraface, a familiar face in many American and Greek productions, anchors it all. But don't expect to taste anything surprising.
The food metaphors pile up like layers of an overstuffed sandwich in A Touch of Spice.
Top CriticThis handsome widescreen production about a spice-obsessed Greek professor's journey to adulthood mixes food, history and family ties very palatably and poetically.
The meals look ravishing; the film, however, leaves nothing but a sickly-sweet aftertaste.
Mix historical drama, nostalgic coming-of-age soap opera, and more cooking metaphors than even Julia Child would be able to stomach, and the resultant concoction is A Touch of Spice.
This high calorie confection is a bit Greek to me, since Americans literally bursting at the seams and already bombarded with food ads, are always trying their best to run in the opposite direction from those pound packing temptations.
There's too much sugar sweetening this pat story.
Suggests that the scenes [in the film] were randomly picked from the characters' lives, as if flipping through an album in which the choice of photos was dictated by the need to have had a camera at hand rather than the need to document important moments.
Una película "linda" si bien edulcorada, y demasiado directa hacia lo que se supone que el espectador debe sentir. Sólo falta el cartel al final: "échale sal a tu vida".
As a counterweight to the heavy metaphorical spicing, the film also situates individual lives lived in precise contexts of unfolding political history.
A sentimental Greek offering that's been immensely popular in its home country but doesn't translate well.
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