Leonardi and Rodriguez
The film is "loyal" to the novel (Esquivel wrote the novel and the script). Reallized in an expensive way where the American character is NOT the bad guy!Esquivels novel is very similar to "Las casa de Bernada Alba" from Garcia Lorca!
"Like water for chocolate" was shot in Ciudad Acuna, the town where Carlos Gallardo (the Mariachi from "El Mariachi"!) lived. Robert Rodriguez and him observed the shooting and learned from Araus techniques. In the following summer Rodriguez shot his "El Mariachi" in Ciudad Acuna, where he also made "Desperado" 2 years later.
The young Marco Leonardi who plays the roll of Pedro in "like water for chocolate" appears in Rodriguez' "From Dusk Till Dawn 3, the Hangman's Dauther" as the gunfighting protagonist "Madrid". In "Once Upon a Time in Mexico" he is the third drunken Mariachi next to Antonio Banderas and Enrique Iglesias!
All this because Rodriguez met him in "Like Water for Chocolate"!!!!!!!!1
score 8/10
payoguiri 28 April 2006
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw1353565/35058
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