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The Mistress of Spices

  • 2005
  • PG-13
  • 1 Std. 32 Min.
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5,5/10
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The Mistress of Spices (2005)
An immigrant in San Francisco brings the Indian magic with her thru spices. To keep the magic, she can never leave the spice store or touch another's skin. One day, a handsome architect bachelor enters her store.
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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAn immigrant in San Francisco brings Indian magic with her through spices. To keep the magic, she must never leave the spice store or touch another's skin. One day, a handsome architect bach... Alles lesenAn immigrant in San Francisco brings Indian magic with her through spices. To keep the magic, she must never leave the spice store or touch another's skin. One day, a handsome architect bachelor enters her store.An immigrant in San Francisco brings Indian magic with her through spices. To keep the magic, she must never leave the spice store or touch another's skin. One day, a handsome architect bachelor enters her store.

  • Regie
    • Paul Mayeda Berges
  • Drehbuch
    • Gurinder Chadha
    • Paul Mayeda Berges
    • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
    • Dylan McDermott
    • Nitin Ganatra
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    5,5/10
    5749
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Paul Mayeda Berges
    • Drehbuch
      • Gurinder Chadha
      • Paul Mayeda Berges
      • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
      • Dylan McDermott
      • Nitin Ganatra
    • 57Benutzerrezensionen
    • 41Kritische Rezensionen
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
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    Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
    Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
    • Tilo
    • (as Aishwarya Rai)
    Dylan McDermott
    Dylan McDermott
    • Doug
    Nitin Ganatra
    Nitin Ganatra
    • Haroun Rehman
    Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
    Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
    • Kwesi
    Caroline Chikezie
    Caroline Chikezie
    • Myisha
    Anupam Kher
    Anupam Kher
    • Geeta's Grandfather
    Shaheen Khan
    • Jagjit's Mother
    Sonny Gill
    Sonny Gill
    • Jagjit
    • (as Sonny Gill Dulay)
    Nina Young
    Nina Young
    • Doug's Mother
    Toby Marlow
    • Young Doug
    Padma Lakshmi
    Padma Lakshmi
    • Geeta
    Zohra Sehgal
    Zohra Sehgal
    • First Mother
    • (as Zohra Segal)
    Paul Bhattacharjee
    Paul Bhattacharjee
    • Satish - Geeta's Dad
    Ayesha Dharker
    Ayesha Dharker
    • Hameeda - Haroun's Neighbor
    Rebecca Bowden
    • Bougainvillea Girl
    Harvey Virdi
    Harvey Virdi
    • Geeta's Mother
    Cosima Shaw
    Cosima Shaw
    • Doug's Ex-Girlfriend
    Antony Zaki
    • Doctor
    • (as Anthony Zaki)
    • Regie
      • Paul Mayeda Berges
    • Drehbuch
      • Gurinder Chadha
      • Paul Mayeda Berges
      • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
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    8twistednerves

    Light but tantalizing.

    All the prickly hate surrounding this film is perplexing. Aishwarya Rai fills the chapals of Tilo perfectly and Dylan McDermott is ravishing as Doug. The chemistry between Rai and McDermott is palpable.

    The source material for the film is pretty thin itself. So given that Berges was able to fashion this tasty, meaty film -- that lets you feel the sizzle of the chilies or the lapping of the almond milk while providing a cute folktale in the U.S. -- is commendable.

    The movie's failing attribute is how slow it is to start -- but a quirky cast and hypnotic cinematography make this a movie that's easily along the lines of The Lake House or Chocolat in the realm of accessible magical realism.
    8legofrod

    A good fairy tale...

    I had almost decided not to watch this movie, what with all the people word-bashing its senselessness. But go I did... fortunately.

    Yes, it's not great cinema... of great courage, making you cry... making you angry. But it is good cinema... and a faithful representation of the book. The book is a fairy-tale, simple to the core, and so is the movie.

    And who says Aish cannot act? Just look at the finer nuances of her eyes and eyebrows when she is required to emote, and you will realize that this girl knows what it takes to enact a character which has already been "written about" in a book. Yes, she underplays the role... but that is what her character is, right? A woman who is poised, but sometimes the deepest feelings find their vent. I am surely impressed by Aish's restrained expression of feelings... and people who mistake this for an incapacity to act, God give them the subtleties of discernment.

    Go watch this movie... not to come out exhilarated or flustered... but to enjoy a good fairy tale, for that's what it is.
    harry_tk_yung

    A fairytale, particularly pleasant to the eyes

    It's difficult for any one who has a good appreciation for culinary art not to be attracted to this spicy shop, spacious, tastefully appointed, with thousands of colourful spices displayed in so many different interesting fashions. A sheer joy for the eyes.

    So is Aishwaryi Rai, Miss World of 1994, who graces the screen with wide-eyed innocence through most of the movie and appears in the last scene radiating with alluring glamour in a bright red evening gown, with her hair finally let down, falling like graceful ripples to her shoulder.

    Even accepting the premise of a fairy tale, it's hard to believe how Tilo (Rai) can run her spice shop all by herself without EVER leaving it, the first of three conditions for having her power bestowed by "the spices". The second is easier to abide by if one is careful, not to touch the skin of any human being. The third is not to use the power to benefit herself. This "power" is a vague ability to see other people's past and sometimes future and to use spices to help them.

    The romance with dashing architect Doug (Dylan McDermott) is appropriately low-key, and hence believable. Subplots include Tilo's various customers, with their assortment of problems, many caused by cultural clashes in southern California.

    All told, this is a delightful little fairy tale which is particularly pleasant visually. I can't help but think that it should also come with these new gimmicks, as a movie with smells. This is the perfect movie for it.
    7gradyharp

    Visuals 5, Story 3, But a Pleasure to Watch

    THE MISTRESS OF SPICES has some of the most beautiful use of color and texture in the form a magical Spice Bazaar that has graced a DVD. It also has as its protagonist the very beautiful Aishwarya Rai and the love interest of the always-reliable Dylan McDermott. The story was created and directed by Paul Mayeda Berges (with help from Gurinder Chada) who has given us such fine films as "Paris, je t'aime', 'Bride & Prejudice' and 'Bend It Like Beckham'. So the question arises as to why this film just doesn't quite make it: the reason may be the tough marriage of fantasy with reality, assigning more importance to dialog between the Mistress and the spices than to the development of storyline.

    Tilo (the ravishingly beautiful Aishwarya Rai) was taken in as a child by a spiritually inclined First Mother (Zohra Sehgal) who trains young girls the mysteries of spices - their magic, their meaning and their rigid life style imposed on the developing Mistresses. Those who gain the secrets of the spices are sent into the world, warned never to use the magic for them selves, never to touch human skin, and never to leave the shops where their spices are shared to help mankind. Tilo moves to the Bay Area and does good deeds for her customers until she meets Doug (Dylan McDermott) who needs her care after a motorcycle accident. They touch, their eyes speak of mutual desire and Tilo is thrown into conflict of being a mistress of spices or of having a love life. How situations and destiny work through the story is the meager line of the tale, the majority of the script is Tilo communicating with her spices!

    The cast contains some fine character actors such as Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Caroline Chikezie, Anupam Kher, and of course Zohra Sehgal. And there is enough statement about immigrant status in America to keep the story topical. THE MISTRESS OF SPICES entertains and that is a pleasure. Just don't expect a film on the level of director Paul Mayeda Berges' other works. Grady Harp
    scholswainnisbet

    Mistress Of Spices

    This is an Amazing Film in that it is about something, almost lost in this Twenty first century. In this throwaway society to be taken back to the World of Craft: In This Case This Beautiful Maiden's Love and almost Worship of Spices the way she empathises with them allows her to act as The Foodie Eqivalence of The Now regarded Noble Profession of Aromatherapist. The True Calling of The Crafts men or Craftswomen whoso immerse themselves in the nuances and resonances of their craft or calling is alas something we so rarely see today. So until We can have A Mistress of Spices in every City Town Village or Neighbourhood. This Film is the closest we can get to The Magical Shangrila of The Mistress of Spices.

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    Romanze

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    • Wissenswertes
      Gurinder Chadha and her mother made all the mango and carrot pickles seen at the spice store.
    • Patzer
      When Tilo makes "paan" for Kwesi, she is shown putting some betel nuts and finally a cardamom in the paan. However, upon revelation, a clove is seen in the paan which was never there before.
    • Zitate

      Tilo: Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.

    • Verbindungen
      Referenced in The Contractor - Doppeltes Spiel (2007)
    • Soundtracks
      Don't Shake Me Up
      Written and Performed by Tanita Tikaram

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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 21. April 2006 (Vereinigtes Königreich)
    • Herkunftsländer
      • Vereinigte Staaten
      • Vereinigtes Königreich
      • Insel Man
      • Indien
    • Sprache
      • Englisch
    • Auch bekannt als
      • Die Hüterin der Gewürze
    • Drehorte
      • Isle of Man
    • Produktionsfirmen
      • Kintop Pictures
      • Balle Pictures
      • Capitol Films
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      • 1 Std. 32 Min.(92 min)
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    • Sound-Mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Seitenverhältnis
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