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A Taste of Hunger is the latest film focused on the febrile atmosphere of a professional kitchen. Set to hit the big screen later this month, it lands in the wake of the emotive Boiling Point, and features a volatile head chef.
A Taste of Hunger: a race for a Michelin star
This time we're heading to the New Nordic epicentre and home of creative fine dining, Copenhagen, where we meet the power couple running a fine-dining restaurant, Malus, who are prepared to risk it all in their relentless pursuit of a Michelin star.
The film stars Katrine Greis-Rosenthal as Maggie and Nikolaj CosterWaldau (aka Jamie Lannister from Game of Thrones) as Carsten, an ambitious couple with two children and a hunger to make their mark with their restaurant. CosterWaldau stars as the celebrity chef obsessed with taste, while his screen wife Greis-Rosenthal plays an anthropologist. Together they jeopardise their relationships and financial security with their Michelin-star obsession.
Forty-year-old CosterWaldau, who was a dab hand at wielding a sword as Jamie Lannister, appears to be equally adept at managing a knife as chef Carsten. Naturally, the team were able to tap into a pool of locally available professional talent, with chef Bo Lindegaard serving as a consultant for the production, even creating the opening dish, and chef Rasmus Munk from the Alchemist is also said to have had some input.
A Taste of Hunger was directed by Christoffer Boe, produced by Louise Vesth and written by Tobias Lindholm and Christoffer Boe, and arrives in cinemas and on demand on 28 January.
Katrine Greis-Rosenthal and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau in A TASTE OF HUNGER, a Magnolia Pictures release. Photo by Henrik Ohsten. Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.
