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Like Water For Chocolate [1992] [DVD]

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Lumi Cavazos (Actor), Marco Leonardi (Actor), Alfonso Arau (Director) Rated: Suitable for 15 years and over Format: DVD
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  • Actors: Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, Regina Torné, Mario Ivan Martinez, Ada Carrasco
  • Directors: Alfonso Arau
  • Format: PAL
  • Language: Spanish
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Arrow
  • DVD Release Date: 19 Sept. 2005
  • Run Time: 109 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (44 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0009F68D4
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 34,215 in DVD & Blu-ray (See Top 100 in DVD & Blu-ray)

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This luxuriant adaptation of Laura Esquivel s much-loved novel (directed by her then husband Alfonso Arau) broke box-office records for a Spanish-language film, not least in the United States. In a Mexican border town in 1910, neighbours Pedro and Tita wish to marry, but Tita s mother Elena refuses to give her consent, since she wants her youngest daughter to stay living with her as a full-time carer. So Pedro marries Tita s sister Rosario instead and Tita pours her innermost feelings into her cooking, triggering similar responses in anyone who samples it, whether lovelorn grief or overwhelming passion. But Tita s concoctions are just one of many magical-realist touches in this sensuous and intoxicating film, which offsets the real-life historical background of the Mexican Revolution with tales of ghosts, mysterious lights and an ancient legend that claims that human beings are essentially matches, combustible at any moment when given the right trigger.

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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, Amazon.com --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 starsTHE MYSTICAL PROPERTIES OF FOOD...
By lawyeraau HALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWER on 5 Nov. 2002
Format: VHS Tape
This film is a feast for the eyes. Based upon the best selling novela of the same name by Laura Esquivel, who also wrote the screenplay, the film successfully captures this tale of forbidden love. Well directed by Laura Esquivel's husband, Alfonso Arau (The Magnificent Ambersons, A Walk In the Clouds), the cast delivers wonderful performances in this mystical tale.
During the early twentieth century in Mexico, just south of the border, a girl catches the eye of boy. A number of years later, the boy, Pedro, now a young man, speaks to the girl, Tita, now a young woman, and declares his heartfelt, passionate love for her. Pedro (Marco Leonardi) wants Tita (Lumi Cavazos) to marry him.
He and his father meet with Tita's mother, Elena (Regina Torne), and ask if she would give her consent to a union between Pedro and Tita, Elena's youngest daughter. Elena forbids such a marriage to take place, as it is an unbroken family tradition that the youngest daughter remain single, so that she may take care of her mother until the mother dies. Such is the destiny of Tita. Elena, instead, cruelly offers to have her oldest daughter, Rosaura (Yareli Arizmendi), marry Pedro.
Surprisingly, Pedro agrees to marry Rosauro, his twisted logic being that this is the only way he can be close to Tita. Thus, begins an untenable situation. Tita, forced by her selfish, harridan of a mother to prepare the wedding feast for Rosaura and Pedro, begins a lifelong sublimation of her passion and emotions with food. Its mystical properties become self evident in the expert hands of Tita, as she becomes a superlative cook. She has the ability to imbue the food that she prepares with the fervor and feelings, both good and bad, that she dare not express.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsA cooked up tragic Mexican romance
By A Customer on 21 Mar. 2002
Format: VHS Tape
This film is ultimately based on a very old Mexican tradition, whereby the youngest daughter of the family is fated to be a spinster in order to look after her mother. This is a very forlorn film but nevertheless, excellent. Food also plays a major part in this film. It is a beautifully made film and I recommend those who can read Spanish to read this novel by Laura Esquivel.
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4.0 out of 5 starsCooked with a lot of love
By R. J. Lister on 2 Mar. 2015
Format: Blu-ray
Based on the 1989 novel by Laura Esquivel, and hugely popular and critically lauded on its release in 1992, this Mexican film is the quintessential “magic realism” picture. Magic realism is where the existence of magic is accepted in an otherwise rational, everyday universe. Here it means that the food poor Tita (Lumi Cavazos) makes is infused with all the sadness and joy she happens to be experiencing at the time.

So, when her monstrous mother Elena (Regina Torné) tells Tita she’ll never be married, and that her true love Pedro (Marco Leonardi) will wed her sister instead, Tita’s tears poison the wedding banquet and cause the guests to collapse into sobbing themselves, and then violently vomit.

Opening in 1895, the film spans about 40 years, although it’s very fast-moving. There’s a birth and a funeral in the first five minutes. It’s a heady, dizzying narrative, with every melodramatic scene seemingly another revelation: another pregnancy or untimely death, as Tita and Pedro dance a merry (and not-so-merry) dance around the entrenched family values and traditions of the time.

Throughout, food is the real star, Alfonso Arau’s camera lovingly sticking its nose into myriad dishes while the humans bicker and weep. There’s something paradoxically powerful about a feminist story told mostly in kitchens. It’s a film about sensations; specifically, how social conventions deny human sensations. The “food of the gods” scene, which culminates in Tita’s sister trying to dowse her lust and setting the water-shed on fire, is wildly erotic. Jane Campion’s The Piano would be released the following year, and that too would make deeply sensual use of buttoned-down desires finally unleashed.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsPerfection
By Mr. D. R. Hamilton on 7 Feb. 2009
Format: DVD Verified Purchase
I first saw this at my local cinema some years back and it went down so well it was brought back again. I bought it on Video and have now purchased the DVD. I have been a lover of the cinema for seventy years plus and regard this film as one of the best I have ever seen. The scene where Tita drives away wrapped in her knitted garment and yards of it flowing behind her speaks volumes about her feelings and the unobtainable man she loves, for me one of the great moments in cinematic history.
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3.0 out of 5 starsA very good film, a bad DVD
By K. Gordon TOP 500 REVIEWER on 20 Mar. 2011
Format: DVD
Warm, funny, bittersweet, moving fable about three sisters, their horrific mother; and their
lives and loves in early 20th century Mexico.

The film feels epic in scope, despite only being 1:45 long. That does mean a
few things get rushed, and there are moments that edge into too
cute. Perhaps that's because the film has been inexplicably shortened
from it's original theatrical length.

But for the most part, this mix of romance, cooking, melodrama, gentle satire
and magical realism still works wonderfully well, and the constant use of food as a
metaphor for sex, and for life feels original and creative.

Another complaint on the the DVD is that it is in full frame, 4:3 format, so
not only do we not get all the story, we also don't get all the image. A pity.

(Note: the new 2011 Miramax release at least restores the film to 1:85, but
does not replace the edited material, so it's only a partial solution.)
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3.0 out of 5 starsBought for someone else, so no comment

Bought for someone else, so no comment

Published 1 month ago by Part-time-Reader
1.0 out of 5 starsthis was wasted money.

Supplied in Spanish without subtitles, this was wasted money.

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3.0 out of 5 starsSpoiled by the ending

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