Directed by:
Alfonso ArauScreenplay:
Laura EsquivelComposer:
Leo BrowerCast:
Marco Leonardi, Lumi Cavazos, Margarita Isabel, Andrés García Jr., Arcelia Ramírez, Ada Carrasco, Regino Herrera, Regina Torné, Farnesio de Bernal (more)VOD (1)
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In a Mexican border town in 1910, neighbours Pedro and Tita wish to marry, but Tita s mother Elena refuses to give her consent, since she wants her youngest daughter to stay living with her as a full-time carer. So Pedro marries Tita s sister Rosario instead and Tita pours her innermost feelings into her cooking, triggering similar responses in anyone who samples it, whether lovelorn grief or overwhelming passion. But Tita s concoctions are just one of many magical-realist touches in this sensuous and intoxicating film, which offsets the real-life historical background of the Mexican Revolution with tales of ghosts, mysterious lights and an ancient legend that claims that human beings are essentially matches, combustible at any moment when given the right trigger. (Arrow Films)
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Marco Leonardi
Australia
Best movies:
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Il capo dei capi (2007) (series)
Palermo Connection (1990)
Lumi Cavazos
Mexico
Best movies:
Sugar Town (1999)
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Bottle Rocket (1996)
Margarita Isabel
Best movies:
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Cronos (1993)
Andrés García Jr.
Mexico
Best movies:
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Cemetery of Terror (1985)
Devil's Triangle of Bermuda (1978)
Arcelia Ramírez
Mexico
Best movies:
Violet Perfume: Nobody Hears You (2001)
All the Silence (2023)
Instructions Not Included (2013)
Ada Carrasco
Mexico
Best movies:
Nazarin (1959)
The Bravados (1958)
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
Regino Herrera
Best movies:
El imperio de la fortuna (1986)
Romero (1989)
Triumphs of a Man Called Horse (1982)
Regina Torné
Mexico
Best movies:
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Farnesio de Bernal
Best movies:
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
Cabeza de Vaca (1991)
Eagle's Wing (1979)
Claudette Maillé
Mexico
Best movies:
Burn the Bridges (2007)
Before Night Falls (2000)
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Lorena Villarreal
Mexico
Best movies:
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Rodolfo Arias
Best movies:
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Love in the Time of Hysteria (1991)
Brígida Alexander
Germany
Best movies:
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Genaro Aguirre
Best movies:
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Mario Iván Martínez
Mexico
Best movies:
Fidel (2002) (TV movie)
Like Water for Chocolate (1992)
Perfect Target (1997)