Like Water for Chocolate
by Alfonso Arau
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Actor: Ada Carrasco, Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, Mario Iv?n Mart?nez, Regina Torn?Director: Alfonso Arau
Brand: CAVAZOS/LEONARDI
Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
Cinematographer: Steven Bernstein
Producer: Alfonso Arau
Editor: Carlos Bolado
Producer: Emilia Arau
Producer: ?scar Castillo
Writer: Laura Esquivel
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-03-14
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Movie Reviews of Like Water for Chocolate
Movie Review: Have a little passion in your food...
Summary: 5 Stars
Like Water for Chocolate.... the only connection is the fluidity of the element... even that is a lie.... chocolate is oily, rich and thick... Water is none of these things... In life, if you try to substitute water where the situation requires chocolate, well... in a recipe the same goes. The cake will fall flat... the lovers will run away.... Life will be unhappy.
Recipes are passed from generation to generation, from mother to daughter most often, or perhaps from aunt to niece, whichever, food and love go together as inherited traits in our character.
This movie generates many emotions and should be watched with friends and lots of popcorn!
Purchased as a gift for a friend who confessed she has not really taken time to watch movies over the last 20 years but wanted to begin. I felt that she should watch at least one foreign language film to begin her film appreciation stage. It takes some time to get accustomed to reading sub-titles, but there is something alluring about hearing another language. I suppose this version may have had English dubbed over, but since it was a gift I did not open the package. It camed sealed same as if purchased in store. It is a Christmas gift for 2008 and so we'll see what she thinks after the new year.
Summary of Like Water for Chocolate
Based on the best-selling book -- now experience for yourself the erotic tale of forbidden love that seduced both critics and audiences nationwide! Tita and Pedro are passionately in love. But their love is forbidden by an ancient family tradition. To be near Tita, Pedro marries her sister. And Tita, as the family cook, expresses her passion for Pedro through preparing delectable dishes. Now, in Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion. Her creations bring on tears of longing, heated desire, or chronic pain -- while Tita and Pedro wait for the moment to fulfill their most hidden pleasures!Expect to be very hungry (and perhaps amorous) after watching this contemporary classic in the small genre of food movies that includes Babette's Feast and Big Night. Director Alfonso Arau (A Walk in the Clouds), adapting a novel by his former wife, Laura Esquivel, tells the story of a young woman (Lumi Cavazos) who learns to suppress her passions under the eye of a stern mother, but channels them into her cooking. The result is a steady stream of cuisine so delicious as to be an almost erotic experience for those lucky enough to have a bite. The film's quotient of magic realism feels a little stock, but the story line is good and Arau's affinity for the sensuality of food (and of nature) is sublime. You might want to rush off to a good Mexican restaurant afterward, but that's a good thing. --Tom Keogh
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