Like Water for Chocolate
dir. Alfonso Arau
76
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Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.
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Like Water for Chocolate plays to the senses with a richly rewarding romance that indulges in magical realism to intoxicating effect.
Directed byAlfonso Arau
StarringLumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, Regina Torné, Mario Iván Martínez, Ada Carrasco, Yareli Arizmendi
Written byLaura Esquivel
CinematographySteven Bernstein
EditingCarlos Bolado
MusicLeo Brouwer
Like Water for Chocolate
1992 · R · 1h 45m
Drama, Romance
Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.
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