Genre: Drama, Romance
Actor: Ada Carrasco, Andrés García Jr., Arcelia Ramírez, Claudette Maillé, Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, Margarita Isabel, Mario Iván Martínez, Regina Torné, Yareli Arizmendi
Director: Alfonso Arau
Food can warm you, can nourish you, and can make you feel so much better. Food is also the way people can keep their culture, with techniques and knowledge passed down by generations to better make use of the ingredients in the country. However, in Like Water for Chocolate, food is the means for rebellion, for breaking free from tradition, with Tita, who’s stuck in the kitchen by her mom, infusing her creations with so much emotion that the rest of her family is compelled to find a love just as passionate as hers is for Pedro. It’s a passionate adaptation made by director Alfonso Arau for his wife and the novel’s author Laura Esquivel, and it’s just so well done that it’s easy to be swept up in the family’s unfulfilled desires.