2005 · drama · romance · fantasy
The Mistress of Spices
Directed by Paul Mayeda Berges1h 32m2005
Tilo is an Indian shopkeeper in America with an ability to see the future and a magical connection to powerful spices, which she uses to help her customers satisfy their various needs and desires. One day she falls in love with an American man. But the spices forbid it.
Our read: The Mistress of Spices (2005) reads as a warm, measured, inventive drama · romance · fantasy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / romance, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
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