The Mistress of Spices (2005)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.4/10   

Director:

Paul Mayeda Berges

Escritores (WGA):

Gurinder Chadha (screenplay) &
Paul Mayeda Berges (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

21 abril 2006 (UK)

Género:

Drama | Romance

Frase comercial:

One spice for passion. And one woman who knows its name.

Plot:

In India, Tilo has the ability of foreseeing the future. When their parents are killed by bandits, she...

Plot Keywords:

Spice | Taxi Driver | Cab Driver | Grandfather Granddaughter Relationship | Guilt

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Missed With Awful Spices

Reparto

Aishwarya Rai	...	Tilo
Dylan McDermott	...	Doug
Nitin Ganatra	...	Haroun Rehman
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje	...	Kwesi
Caroline Chikezie	...	Myisha
Anupam Kher	...	Geeta's Grandfather
Shaheen Khan	...	Jagit's Mother
Sonny Gill Dulay	...	Jagjit
Nina Young	...	Doug's Mother
Toby Marlow	...	Young Doug
Padma Lakshmi	...	Geeta
Zohra Sehgal	...	First Mother (as Zohra Segal)
Paul Bhattacharjee	...	Satish - Geeta's dad
Ayesha Dharker	...	Hameeda - Haroun's neighbor
Rebecca Bowden	...	Bougainvillea Girl

También conocida como:

Condimentos para el amor (Argentina) (Venezuela) [es]
La joven de las especias (Spain) (TV title) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for some violent images and sensuality

Duración:

92 min | Canada:92 min (Toronto International Film Festival)

País:

USA | UK

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Ireland:12A | UK:12A | Singapore:PG | Australia:M | Hong Kong:IIA | Malaysia:U | USA:PG-13 | Argentina:Atp | Italy:T | Finland:K-11

Locaciones de Filmación:

Baker's Beach, Presidio, San Francisco, California, USA

Compañía:

Balle Pictures

Trivialidades:

Gurinder Chadha and her mother made all the mango and carrot pickles seen at the spice store.

Errores:

Continuidad: During the scene when Doug tells Tilo about his relationship to his mother, the glass of lemon soda that she gives him is full, then when he sets it down it's empty. Then he raises it again to his mouth, and it's full again.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in The Contractor (2007) (V)

Banda de Sonido:

Aap Ki Nazron Ne Samjha (Flute Mix)

Missed With Awful Spices

When the chillies in a spice shop get more on screen attention than the leading man in a romance, you've got yourself big, big problems. Here are just a few: She's not allowed to touch a human... SHE'S RUBBING HER COUSIN'S HAND 5 MINUTES IN! Does every Indian now living in San Francisco have a history blighted by parricide!? When a film relies on over 50% of it's dialogue through the source of spoken thought it is corrupt of imagination.

On a more general note: Mistress of the Spices is a poor story poorly told. It's cliché ridden; the dialogue is shocking; the acting is unconvincing and the directing woefully one dimensional. Aishwarya Rai does indeed have stunning eyes - but does the camera really need to give us close-ups of them every 4 minutes!? There is nothing to recommend this febrile nonsense. It is patronising to both the Sub-Continent and the West and, as a metaphor, is as involving as if she'd have ran a DIY store. Actually...

If you're a fan of film and want to see how to get everything wrong - watch this. If you think time is too precious, have a curry instead - it's infinitely more authentic and satisfying.