1992 · drama · romance · mexican
Like Water for Chocolate
Directed by Alfonso Arau1h 45m1992
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.
Our read: Like Water for Chocolate (1992) reads as a warm, steady, inventive drama · romance · mexican entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, steady, measured drama / romance, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
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