Lights, Camera, Action! It’s Time to Eat!
hardships. The owner, named Zinos, is a young ‘chef ’ of Greek origin. The restaurant has habitually rough customers, and the lowest quality dishes on offer. The situation changes when Zinos gets sick, and he is forced to acquire a new chef. A difficult and crusty expert of haute cuisine arrives, leading the restaurant to become a success supplying good dishes accompanied by soul music. The protagonist in Soul Kitchen is the human genre with its primary and instinctive needs: food, sex, alcohol and dance. The movie is a pleasure to
praise, hedonistic and convivial. The restaurant environment is a global microcosm and the happy ending helps to imagine a world where, thanks to music and food, everybody can find serenity. Restaurants that open and that close symbolises the challenge against the change of the common taste that the majority impose. As the American Big Night of 1986, perfect representative of a hypothetical culinary cinematography: like in Soul Kitchen, there is a restaurant in financial straits, in American Fifties. The restaurant, The Paradise, 59