Like Water for Chocolate

I wish all transgenerational family period epics could be as enjoyable and well written as this one. I really got invested in the characters - even if some of them were one-dimensional, the relationships between them were portrayed very genuinely. I also fell for the focus on the kitchen and cooking processes, and the magical realism that went with it. Arau did a great job showing us the drama and fireworks of love. A movie I look forward to seeing again in the future and sharing with others.

Really enjoyed this. It oddly was lacking in dialogue so it makes an easy to watch foreign language film. If you speak Spanish even better. Or maybe worse.

This one came as a surprise: it steers very close to telenovela territory, but for the most part stays on the right side of the line. Instead, it offers us a dense and well-paced story (how many directors still can tell a whole saga in 1h45?) with plenty of attention to detail.

Nearly unbearable experience, with a lead that manages to be unsympathetic despite the setup giving her every advantage. There's no actual sense of romance or love, only a mysterious passion that the film never really sells, and a tie to food that has very little of interest. The pacing after the first third is very piecemeal and the secondary characters are underdeveloped. It becomes a plodding experience as the inevitability of the ending is increasingly clear but takes it sweet time arriving.

I loved the book and the movie. They did a great adaptation.

A movie about love and food from Mexico. Excellent!!

Has about as much to do with the real Mexico as _The Lion King_ has to do with the real Africa, but somehow this is a curiously potent fantasy. Great-aunt Tita quite possibly has the greatest smile in the world; modest, not 100 watts

This fantasy is one of my all time favorites. Don't look for any relevant accuracies here when it pertains to the region of the film. Instead, relish a new twist on a story of forbidden love.

Sweet Mexican cooking and bygone magic from back when romance was enchanted, fairytales came true, and the food was bomb. Okay, it's not a great love story but I find its mythical gestures endearing and it's an excellent food movie. This guy can film a frying pan in action with the best of them. Those stuffed peppers look gooood

I really liked the elements of magical realism in the movie, but it is hindered by a very cliched story with one-dimensional characters

I was about 9 years old when I watched it. and today I just didn't forget. It was good at that time of my childhood.

Extreme latinamerican magic-romance melodrama. Sweet, amusing, very well shot, has a way with words, and little else.

Tears are flowing everywhere.

Seems that true love waits despite everything and every one... a story using mexican ingredients for cooking.

An extremely exaggerated melodrama. Your enjoyment depends on how you handle stuff like Tita's magical food that causes everybody to cry, fuck, or experience transubstantiation; plus other moments like a quilt knitted out of grief that has to be 100 feet long and the longest metaphor ever.

Magical realism; go get some good Mexican food afterward