Like Water for Chocolate

Like Water for Chocolate
by Alfonso Arau

Like Water for Chocolate
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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

DVD Reviews of Like Water for Chocolate

DVD 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.

DVD Review: This movie is "erotic and delectable"?
Summary: 2 Stars

The story opens on a Mexican rancho in 1910, as Tita is being born. Her harsh mother proclaims that the child will remain at home all her life and never marry, and Tita is relegated to the kitchen. When she grows up, Tita falls in love with handsome Pedro; he cannot marry her so he marries her sister just to be close to his beloved, who is now the family cook.

I know this was a favorite of the critics when it came out, so I can only assume that something was lost in the translation for me, because I don't see the appeal or the greatness of this movie at all. To me, the actors seemed bland and amateurish, the scenes were choppy and poorly photographed, and story couldn't decide if it was a real love story or a magical fantasy. The meaning of the title was never explained and the last scene was just bizarre.

I really expected to like this movie, but found it a low-budget, art house-wannabe. In Spanish with English subtitles.

DVD Review: One of the strangest movies that I've ever seen
Summary: 1 Stars

I first watched this movie with my roommate who absolutely loves it. The whole time though, I sat there hoping that it would get better. The entire plot is very strange, it seemed interesting at first, especially considering the fact that she was able to put her emotions into what she cooked, but then it just got more and more obscure. The way that the sister ran off and the mother's haunting of the girl and then setting the man on fire was odd enough, but then you get to the end where she eats matches to kill herself and then the building bursts into flames. The only possible reason that I can see for buying this movie is to sit there and make fun of it.

DVD Review: I want some of that Chocolate ! ! !
Summary: 5 Stars

I watched this movie at first when it came out and I liked it very much.
I've never thought about buying it but I saw it in Amazon and at such a nice price along with all the nice reviews and just decided to buy it.

I highly recommend it to anyone, it's just great.
If you really enjoy dramas and FOOD, you'll enjoy one this too ! ! !

DVD Review: Depressing Drama
Summary: 1 Stars

After reading a few reviews and hearing that it was similar to "Simply Irresistable," I thought this would be a good romantic movie. (Whoever said it was like "Simply Irresistable" is crazy.) It had some romantic moments, but overall this was very depressing, and frustrating, with a mother that drove you mad.
I would not recommend this movie.

Description 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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