The Mistress of Spices
by Paul Mayeda Berges
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Actor: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Aishwarya Rai, Caroline Chikezie, Dylan McDermott, Nitin GanatraDirector: Paul Mayeda Berges
Brand: Genius
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Running Time: 95 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Weinstein Company
Movie Reviews of The Mistress of Spices
Movie Review: A bit of magical realism with some beautiful direction
Summary: 4 Stars
Mistress of Spices is a film sort of like Chocolat, where it's in the real world but there's an accepted level of "magic" that exists that pushes the story along. In Chocolat, the protagonist used her chocolate concoctions to help people and revolutionize the towns she lives in. In Mistress of Spices, she uses, of course, spice to help people and revolutionize her own life.
The main actors in this are quite good. Aishwarya Rai does well, once you get past her slightly awkward narration right at the beginning. I don't usually like Dylan McDermott, but he was quite good in this. I think, however, that his character was such that pretty much any "dark-haired stranger" type of actor could have played him with the same effectiveness.
The existing magic in the film is all in Rai's character and the spices she communicates with. She has a skill at "seeing" people's problems and can use the spices to remedy them. If you have any trouble with the mixing of fantasy and reality in a story, then stay away from this as it will only frustrate you. Luckily, I have no such problem and so enjoyed it a great deal.
The movie isn't terribly dramatic. It's primarily a romantic story between the two main characters, but of course everything has to go awry before it can have the happy ending, so there's a little bit of drama to keep the movie going. It's above all, a fairly light film, much like Chocolat, which is the most similar film I can think of with which to compare Mistress of Spices.
It's good! Nothing that will change your life forever, of course, but it's a solidly enjoyable movie.
Summary of The Mistress of Spices
(Romance) Tilo runs a spice store in San Francisco and has a magical gift of seeing into her customers' lives and desires. But, when a handsome, enigmatic American with a secret past enters her store, Tilo's own desires are stirred for the first time.Art House & International DVD Video
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