Chichester Cinema at New Park
Like Water for Chocolate
- Como Agua Para Chocolate
The story of forbidden love that takes place on a ranch in Mexico near the Texas border in 1910, during the Mexican Revolution.
Pedro (Marco Leonardi) wishes to marry Tita (Lumi Cavazos), the youngest of three daughters of a wilful widow on a remote ranch, but tradition dictates that the youngest daughter can never marry - she must cook and care for her mother. To remain near his true love, Pedro marries Tita's oldest sister, and Tita establishes a highly unusual sensual relationship with Pedro through the food she prepares for him. Elements of magic and a closeness to the spirit world corresponds exactly to Tita's repressed emotional life.
The most successful Latin American movie ever made up to 1991 has to be beautiful and almost certainly romantic. What is surprising is its supernatural playfulness, the importance of culinary imagination and the recognition of sexual combustion.
Mexico · 1992 · Alfonso Arau · 123min
