Saturday, April 3, 2010

Como Agua Para Chocolate ****


(Like Water for Chocolate)
Director: Alfonso Arau
Year: 1992
Book and screenplay by: Laura Esquivel
Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki, Steven Bernstein

A mexican romance novel turned into a really good film, actually.

Sisters choose different fates despite the very restrictive roles laid out for them by society of the time and their own mother (what feminists call a self-oppressor).

If you were compiling a list of films for feminists, you would be remiss to not include this one.

See it!

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