Toscana film

2022 - 5 - 18

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Where was Toscana Filmed? (The Cinemaholic)

The film stars several talented actors like Anders Matthesen, Cristiana Dell'Anna, Andrea Bosca, Ghita Nørby, and Lærke Winther. With its heart-warming story ...

The region is also famous for its olives, truffles, and wines. The beautiful Tuscan landscape is hilly in nature since the region is characterized by mountains. The city of Florence serves as the capital of Tuscany. Florence is one of the most popular tourist destinations within the country, along with Pisa, which is also in the same region.

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Toscana Review: Anders Matthesen Learns To Live A Little In The ... (Leisurebyte)

Toscana on Netflix is a heartwarming story about Theo, a Danish chef who goes back to Tuscany to sell his father's inheritance but rather it changes his ...

By spending his time in Tuscany and interacting with the community of people who live there, he tries to understand his father and his way of life. With Sophia, Theo learns to open his heart and let go of the obsession with precision and perfection. The film tries to give a beautiful message through it that translates to, “as extraordinary (special) as everyone else”. No one is born special but everyone can become one if they believe in themselves. He meets Sophia, who was close with his father and now runs the place after his death. Reminiscing the old memories and being present in the place that was once his home, makes him feel a lot of emotions and feelings that he had repressed. However, just before the dinner, he learns that his estranged father, whom he hasn’t seen since childhood, is dead and has left him his property called Ristonchi in Tuscany, Italy.

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Toscana review - a film that will whet the appetites of food lovers (Ready Steady Cut)

This review of Toscana is spoiler-free. Toscana follows Theo (Anders Matthesen) as he ventures from Denmark to Tuscany following the death of his father.

No, it’s not the kind of film that will move mountains, but there are a lot more good elements than those that let it down, and if, like me, you’re unable to tear yourself away from a food and travel show when you find one, this will not be time wasted. The beauty of Toscana is it knows where its strengths lie and lets them do the donkey work. It plays out like one of those food and travel shows, not skimping at all on the detailed shots of the preparation of heritage dishes, and sweeping views of local produce and the environments it came from.

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Stream It Or Skip It: 'Toscana' on Netflix, a Bland Danish Drama ... (Decider)

The Gist: Theo (Anders Matthesen) is the type of fancy-restaurant chef who painstakingly arranges meticulously sliced beets in artful patterns on a plate, ...

We get maudlin flashbacks, a drunken third-act speech and the cornball assertion that what Theo needs to cure his ills is to stop measuring so much when he cooks, and instead start feeling it more. Theo can’t sleep one night so he goes down to the kitchen and scrubs it clean just so he can slice some bread and press the pieces on the grill and get out the mortar and pestle and grind some herbs and fastidiously assemble the world’s most fussed-over… A potential investor in said dream walks into the kitchen and even though he’s a slickster and a little overbearing and zealous, he doesn’t deserve the tongue-lashing he gets from Theo, who’s got a lot of work to do from here on out earning our sympathy as our protagonist. Theo barely gives a crap, though, and still courts a buyer, with the help of Pino (Andrea Bosca), Sophia’s fiancee. Director Mehdi Avaz, writing with Nikolaj Sherfig, stages this character’s personal journey as a love letter to the sights and sounds of rural Italy – and its flavors, because he stirs some food porn into this narrative recipe as well. Netflix’s Toscana is the story of a master chef whose plates are delectable but whose personality is sour.

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Toscana Review – But Why Tho? A Geek Community (But Why Tho? A Geek Community)

In Toscana, when Danish chef Theo learns of his estranged father's death, he also inherits his restaurant in rural Tuscany.

The emotional moments, especially in the final act, are poignant albeit against a slightly above middling story but a gorgeous background. Pop culture is cool, but have you ever tried analyzing it through a historical and cultural lens so that you can not only understand the content more deeply? The emotional moments, especially in the final act, are poignant, albeit against a slightly above-middling story but a gorgeous background. The same is true of the food throughout the movie. His journey with reconciling his ties to his father, his chefs, his business partner and one-time fling, the folks he meets in Italy, and of course, Sophia, go mostly where you’d anticipate with some pleasant surprises, mainly in the name of this movie leaning into drama over romance. If it wanted to be a drama but left itself to excessive corniness, it wouldn’t have worked either.

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