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Like Water for Chocolate

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Como agua para chocolate (TV Series)

Original title

Como agua para chocolate

Year

1992

Running time

105 min.

Country

Mexico

Director

Alfonso Arau

Screenwriter

Laura Esquivel. Novel: Laura Esquivel

Cast

Music

Leo Brouwer

Cinematography

Emmanuel Lubezki, Steven Bernstein

Producer

Arau Films Internacional, IMCINE

Genre

Drama. Romance. Comedy | Melodrama. Romantic Comedy. Magic Realism. Teen/coming-of-age. Cooking. 1910s

Synopsis

The passionate Tita (Lumi Cavazos) is in love with Pedro (Marco Leonardi), but her controlling mother (Regina Torne) forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro instead marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking – and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares.

Rankings Position

#42 Best Mexican Movies of all time

Awards: 1992: Golden Globes: Nominated Best Foreign Language Film

1993: Nominated for BAFTA Awards: Best Foreign Language Film

1993: Independent Spirit Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film

1993: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Film

1992: Goya Awards: Nominated for Best Foreign Picture Spanish Language

1991: Ariel Awards: 10 Awards including Best Film and Director. 14 Nominations

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Critics' reviews

"'Like Water for Chocolate' creates its own intense world of passion and romance (...) it continues the tradition of magical realism that is central to modern Latin film and literature (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"'Like Water for Chocolate' offers old-fashioned romantic masochism-Harlequin pulp-dressed up in a magical-realist veneer"

Owen Gleiberman: Entertainment Weekly
"Like Water for Chocolate is a feast for the soul. Hauntingly and exquisitely prepared, this Mexican adult fairy tale is garnished with mystery and wonder"

Desson Thomson: The Washington Post
"Though much of Like Water For Chocolate simmers with humor and the stumbling plight of human life, the movie takes its soul from deeper strains"

Peter Stack: SFGATE
"Like Water for Chocolate, a simmering cauldron of romance and revolution, passion and purity, mysticism and witticism, is a powerful and heady brew."

Austin Chronicle
"A delightfully robust fable about two passions that matter (sex and food)"

Mike Clark: USA Today
"Odd, playful, and sweet (...) the film weaves a subtle spell of enchantment -- until a disappointing conclusion"

James Berardinelli: ReelViews
"An enchanting story played out by a great female cast, particularly Cavazos as the poor Tita, and unique visuals from Arau."

Angie Errigo: Empire

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76 My Favorite Book to Film Adaptation (28)
77 My Favorite Movies from Europe & Latin America (34)

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