Like Water for Chocolate

Like Water for Chocolate

  • Director: Alfonso Arau
  • Countries of origin: Mexico
  • Language: Spanish, English
  • Release date: May 28, 1993
  • Sound mix: Dolby
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Як вода для шоколаду
  • The young Pedro broke into an otherwise peaceful and declining family. He enthusiastically fell in love with the smartest and capable youngest daughter in the family, Tita. But this family has a rule that the youngest daughter will wait for her mother until the old man returns to heaven, and she will not get married before. In desperation, Pedro married Dita's sister as his wife, in order to have a chance to get close to Dita. Tita was very sad, but her mother's life was hard to violate. She could only melt her passion into the food and convey her happiness, anger, sorrow and joy in silent language.

    Details

    • Release date May 28, 1993
    • Filming locations Ciudad Acuña, Coahuíla, Mexico
    • Production companies Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA), Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía (IMCINE), Secretaria de Turismo

    Box office

    Budget

    $2,000,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $21,665,468

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $23,600

    Gross worldwide

    $21,744,201

    Movie reviews

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    • By Johnathan 2022-03-25 09:01:16

      not a movie review

      I don't understand magical realism, so I won't comment on the bizarre logic in the story. The time span of the film is too large, and it especially tests the director's ability to control, from the birth of a child to middle age, and the protagonist has a face when he grows up, and he has returned to middle age, not to mention wrinkles, not even a single gray hair, time. The split is based on subtitles, so I don't think it's very successful in terms of timing. In fact, the story format looks...

    • By Catalina 2022-03-25 09:01:16

      "Chocolate Lover" - Dough Jumping Into the Pan

      A few years ago, in the tenth screening room, a film about food and love was released. At that time, I downloaded it with great enthusiasm, but it was "Chocolate" starring Juliet Binoche. Since then, it has always been unforgettable to send rose petals. The sense of happiness when entering the mouth of a woman may also have a complex of eating flowers because of this scene. As the genitals of...

    • By Christiana 2022-03-24 09:03:04

      Drunk in food and lust for this life, and then die together without regret.

      "Chocolate Lover" doesn't really fit the theme of the movie, the heroine Tina never made chocolate from beginning to end, but she is a real cook. As Tina said, the only secret to cooking a meal is to cook with love, and only love can make unforgettable meals.


      Tina's widow mother has an eccentric temperament. In order to protect the tradition, she asked the eldest daughter to marry the younger daughter's boyfriend, and the younger daughter Tina forbearance for 22 years. In the...

    • By Alana 2022-03-23 09:02:51

      What water is to chocolate

      - I don't believe that the sky is gray,
          I don't believe that the echo of thunder,
          I don't believe that dreams are fake,
          I don't believe that evil is unrequited.
          I don't believe you can guess our ending.

      Water is for chocolate, Mexican Spanish means anger or lust that is on the verge of breaking out, just like adding hot water to hot thick chocolate on the verge of eruption. "Like Water to Chocolate" is a novel by Mexican writer Laura Esquivel about...

    • By Ward 2022-03-21 09:02:49

      Too much water in chocolate

      When China is in the daytime, the United States is at night, but it is not the United States that is directly opposite the earth, and Latin America, which walks on this side during the day and flies on the other side at night. Watching a Latin American movie seriously, the literary narrator seems to be reading a novel, which is not too far from the world imagined by reading Latin American texts: rustic version of Western European aristocrats, bronze Indian maids, palm leaves adorning banquet...

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    • By Giuseppe 2023-09-01 01:14:35

      Adaptation of "Like Water for...

    • By Edwardo 2023-01-12 07:39:47

      Two and a half stars, the last time I watched a Spanish-language film was the very father-daughter file last year. There is such a series of subtitles that suddenly appeared a bunch of gre words and es suffix. Attentive and pretentious, the setting of falling in love with a man who has only met once is unacceptable, but this person married his sister, and the child he gave birth did not kiss his mother and his aunt. Everywhere is a loophole. It's so heartwarming to...

    • By Branson 2022-04-24 07:01:18

      The true magic of weaving a big blanket is especially like the plot of eating dirt in Hundred Years of...

    • By Alivia 2022-04-24 07:01:18

      The mood when you cook will definetely change the taste of the...

    • By Harley 2022-04-24 07:01:18

      Now that I know the plot, I still find it a little weird....

    Movie plot

    During the Mexican Civil War, the widow Elena raised three daughters alone. According to tradition, she put her eldest daughter's marriage first. When the young Pedro officially came to propose marriage and wanted to marry his youngest daughter, Tita, Elena suggested that Pedro should marry her eldest daughter Rosha, and said that Tita would have to wait for her to marry after a hundred years. Pedro accepted Elena's suggestion in order...
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    Movie quotes

    • Tita: [to Mama Elena] Roberto's death is your fault!

    • Doctor John Brown: I see you didn't touch your dinner. Sue Ellen is a horrible cook, but my son and I put up with her food. Of course, *you* don't have to.

    • Doctor John Brown: My aunt is as deaf as a post.

      Tita: Then how can she carry on conversations?

      Doctor John Brown: She reads lips, but when she is eating, she is too preoccupied to notice anything else. Watch.

      [shouts]

      Doctor John Brown: Tia Mary, I'm marrying Tita because the poor girl is crazy.

      [Tia Mary continues eating.]