Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
92 %
Reviews Counted: 26 Fresh: 24 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 7.8/10
Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins
Synopsis:
Tita, as the youngest of three daughters, is condemned by family tradition never to marry, but to spend her life caring for her mother. However, Tita has fallen in love with a young man and he with her. When Tita's mother refuses to let them wed, and suggests that he marry her other daughter... [More]
Tita, as the youngest of three daughters, is condemned by family tradition never to marry, but to spend her life caring for her mother. However, Tita has fallen in love with a young man and he with her. When Tita's mother refuses to let them wed, and suggests that he marry her other daughter instead, Tita takes revenge: by allowing her passions to surface through her cooking, she manipulates the emotions of all who eat her food -- with some very strange and magical results. [Less]
Genre: Foreign Films
Starring: Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torne, Andres Garcia
DVD Info
Release:
Jan 14, 2003
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Reviews
The food scenes in this Mexican fable are just as sumptuous and appetizing as those in Denmark's Oscar-winning Babette's Feast, excpet they have an extra-erotic and surreal appeal due to masterful cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki and Steve Bernstein
02/15/07 09:10 AM
A funny, touching, sumptuous, and incredibly romantic ode to the joys of love and food.
01/05/04 12:08 AM
Celebrates in most unsual and impressive ways both the magic and the mystery of love.
08/20/02 12:29 PM
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