The Perfect Dinner

2022 [ITALIAN]

Comedy / Drama

IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 944 944

Director

Davide Minnella Photo
Davide Minnella

Top cast

Salvatore Esposito Photo
Salvatore Esposito as Carmine
Greta Scarano Photo
Greta Scarano as Consuelo
Gianluca Colucci Photo
Gianluca Colucci as Rosario
Giampiero De Concilio Photo
Giampiero De Concilio as Margherita
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976.86 MB
1280*720
Italian 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  pt  es  
29.97 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 2
1.96 GB
1920*1080
Italian 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  pt  es  
29.97 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MrBoMzIMDb 6 / 10

Secrets on the Menu-When Ambition and Loyalty Collide

What happens when the pursuit of culinary perfection stirs up more than flavors, exposing rivalries, debts, and fragile bonds? The Perfect Dinner serves a stylish yet uneven blend of food drama and crime thriller, where fine dining becomes entangled with underworld intrigue.Detailed and Analytical: The story follows Carmine (Salvatore Esposito), a mafia enforcer who seeks redemption by trading weapons for recipes, and Consuelo (Greta Scarano), a talented yet stubborn chef striving to prove herself in a competitive culinary world. Their uneasy alliance in a high-end restaurant becomes a stage for themes of reinvention, loyalty, and the blurred lines between passion and survival. Esposito's performance carries quiet intensity, while Scarano provides fiery counterbalance, though their chemistry occasionally feels more functional than organic.Visually, the film excels. Lush shots of food preparation and polished interiors create a sensory feast, capturing both the artistry and pressure of haute cuisine. Yet beneath this aesthetic lies a narrative that sometimes struggles with pacing: crime elements and culinary ambitions are juxtaposed but not always fully integrated. The supporting characters lean toward archetypes, and the script's reliance on melodrama occasionally undercuts its more nuanced ideas about trust and second chances.6/10 - The Perfect Dinner (2022) is visually appetizing and thematically ambitious, offering a flavorful mix of crime and cuisine. While it doesn't always balance its ingredients smoothly, it remains a modestly satisfying tale of reinvention set against a backdrop where loyalty is tested as sharply as knives in the kitchen.
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Reviewed by Pasky74 5 / 10

Three-course menu of (Italian) clichés

Unfortunately, this cringe-making film didn't even make me hungry.

I should have known better and avoided this unsavory farce.

The only positive aspect to this three-course menu of typical Italian clichés (mafiosi, people waving their hands while screaming at each other, completely unrealistic situations...) is that it made me feel like watching again 'Big Night' (1996) by Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci, and maybe cook a huge 'timpano' with some friends.

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