Film

Like Water for Chocolate 1992

Directed by Alfonso Arau

  • Drama, Romance
  • 105 min
  • R

Rotten Tomatoes87%Metacritic86

In Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion.

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.

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Grave, overwhelming, earnest and contemplative.

  • gravecomic
  • cooloverwhelming
  • earnestironic
  • contemplativerelentless
  • effortlessdemanding

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