Como Agua para Chocolate

Buy This Item Como Agua para Chocolate by Miramax  Available from Amazon  $9.49  on 11-14-2008     Expect to be very hungry (and perhaps amorous) after watching this contemporary classic in the small genre of food movies that includes <I>Babette's Feast</i> and <i>Big Night</i>. Director Alfonso Arau (<i>A Walk in the Clouds</i>), 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. <I>--Tom Keogh</I> Reader Reviews This is one of my favorite movies. I had it on VCR and wanted to but the DVD in case th VCR wears out. It offers a cultural insite, is funny, sad, sexual and a really good story line.

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