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Like Water for Chocolate

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Marco Leonardi (Actor), Lumi Cavazos (Actor), Alfonso Arau (Director, Producer) Rated:

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Based on the best-selling book -- now experience for yourself the erotic tale of forbidden love that seduced both critics and audiences nationwide! Tita and Pedro are passionately in love. But their love is forbidden by an ancient family tradition. To be near Tita, Pedro marries her sister. And Tita, as the family cook, expresses her passion for Pedro through preparing delectable dishes. Now, in Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion. Her creations bring on tears of longing, heated desire, or chronic pain -- while Tita and Pedro wait for the moment to fulfill their most hidden pleasures!

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Actors: Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Regina Torné, Mario Iván Martínez, Ada Carrasco
Directors: Alfonso Arau
Writers: Laura Esquivel
Producers: Alfonso Arau, Emilia Arau, Óscar Castillo
Format: Color, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
Subtitles: English
Dubbed: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number of discs: 1
Rated:
R
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Studio: Walt Disney Video
DVD Release Date: March 14, 2000
Run Time: 105 minutes
Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (528 customer reviews)
ASIN: 6305428476
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #55,168 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1566 in Movies & TV > DVD > Foreign Films
- #4362 in Movies & TV > DVD > Romance
- #8219 in Movies & TV > DVD > Comedy
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Where's the Rest of the Film?

Byriccottoon March 8, 2004

Format: DVD

The movie on its own (like the book) is imaginative and very good and -- at least with the Spanish language soundtrack -- I would rate it between four and five stars. I have only given the DVD two stars, however, (and that is being generous), because approximately one-sixth of the film (18 of its original 123 minutes) has been inexplicably cut, leaving a sadly truncated 105-minute version. It is unclear why Buena Vista Home Entertainment chose to delete nearly a sixth of the film, but even if they believed that a shorter version would appeal to a wider audience (maybe, maybe not), it is unforgivable that they did not include the missing footage as "deleted scenes" so that those who wanted to see the entire film would be able to do so. This is simply too big a cut for buyers to accept (even at this rather attractive price). Rather than pay for a film that has been so badly butchered (the only worse case I know of is the Region 2 (European) version of "The Big Country," from which nearly an hour was cut, for reasons no one can explain), I will avoid buying this film on DVD until Buena Vista provides a "Collector's" or "Director's Cut" version that restores the film -- one way or another -- to its full original length.

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THE MAGICAL AND MYSTICAL PROPERTIES OF FOOD...

BylawyeraauHALL OF FAMETOP 500 REVIEWERon July 14, 2002

Format: DVD

This film is a feast for the eyes. Based upon the best selling novela of the same name by Laura Esquivel, who also wrote the screenplay, the film successfully captures this tale of forbidden love. Well directed by Laura Esquivel's husband, Alfonso Arau (The Magnificent Ambersons, A Walk In the Clouds), the cast delivers wonderful performances in this mystical tale.

During the early twentieth century in Mexico, just south of the border, a girl catches the eye of boy. A number of years later, the boy, Pedro, now a young man, speaks to the girl, Tita, now a young woman, and declares his heartfelt, passionate love for her. Pedro (Marco Leonardi) wants Tita (Lumi Cavazos) to marry him.

He and his father meet with Tita's mother, Elena (Regina Torne), and ask if she would give her consent to a union between Pedro and Tita, Elena's youngest daughter. Elena forbids such a marriage to take place, as it is an unbroken family tradition that the youngest daughter remain single, so that she may take care of her mother until the mother dies. Such is the destiny of Tita. Elena, instead, cruelly offers to have her oldest daughter, Rosaura (Yareli Arizmendi), marry Pedro.

Surprisingly, Pedro agrees to marry Rosaura, his twisted logic being that this is the only way he can be close to Tita. Thus, begins an untenable situation. Tita, forced by her selfish, harridan of a mother to prepare the wedding feast for Rosaura and Pedro, begins a lifelong sublimation of her passion and emotions with food. Its mystical properties become self evident in the expert hands of Tita, as she becomes a superlative cook. She has the ability to imbue the food that she prepares with the fervor and feelings, both good and bad, that she dare not express. Her love, her pain, her passion is evident in every delightful and delicious dish that she creates, and her feelings manifest themselves in those who ingest her meals.

This is a glorious film about love, filled with mystical, magical, and supernatural portents. Sensual and evocative, it details the road that Tita and Pedro must travel before their journey is complete. Wonderfully acted and beautifully told, theirs is a story that will long linger in the mind of the viewer. Awash in amber tones, the brilliant cinematography contributes to the mystical properties of this film. Sumptuous and surreal, it is a feast for the eyes and not to be missed. Bravo!

The DVD offers clear visuals and great sound. It does not offer much in the way of special features. Watch it in the original Spanish with English subtitles in order to retain the intended flavor of this superlative film.

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Who Needs Chocolate As An Aphrodisiac......

ByMs. S. K. Williamson April 25, 2000

Format: VHS Tape

.....if you can get the same amount of passion as these two lovers.
I absolutely adore this sensual, quirky romantic comedy drama about forbidden love and family ties set in early twentieth century Mexico.
When Tita, the youngest of three daughters, falls in love with Pedro, a local lad, it seems only right that the two should marry and live happily ever after. But Tita's strict and cold-hearted mother has other ideas; according to a family tradition the youngest daughter in the family must stay at home and take care of her mother until she dies and thus making marriage at the bottom of the list of priorities. Determined to stick to it, Tita's mother forbids the marriage and instead offers the hand of her eldest daughter to Pedro. Believing that through marrying her sister it will mean remaining close to Tita, Pedro consents without fully realising the strain on the family this move will involve....
This film maintains it's charm, passion and wit all the way through and there are also really good performances from everyone especially Lumi Cavazos as the sexually frustrated heroine Tita.
I confess to being shocked by all the nudity but then in the Latin countries nudity is no big deal and it is not at all gratuitous - so if you're hiring for titilation then you'll be disappointed
Just in case you're confused by the seemingly nonsensical title it translates into "Como Agua Para Chocolate" in Spanish and is a South American idiom used to describe someone who is sexually frustrated. And there is certainly plenty of that here.....