Mostly Martha

A perfectionist head chef in Hamburg lives entirely for her work — until her sister dies and she must care for her niece, and a charming Italian chef arrives to share her kitchen. Uses food as a language — cold and precise in Martha's hands at first, warm and generous in Mario's. A film that understands the relationship between control and grief without announcing it. Quietly irresistible. Later remade in Hollywood as No Reservations, but the original has something the remake lost.