Food Festival Week: "Like Water for Chocolate" ("Como agua para chocolate") January 19, 2008

Once a month Marblehead Little Theatre will show a movie on Saturday - because we have been asked to! The Saturday Food Film is an erotic tale of forbidden love: "Like Water for Chocolate."

Expect to be hungry again (and perhaps amorous) after watching this contemporary classic in the small genre of food movies that includes Babette's Feast- and Big Night (Friday 1/18th). Director Alfonso Arau (A Walk in the Clouds), adapting a novel by his former wife, Laura Esquivel, tells the story of a young woman (Lumi Cavazos) who learns to suppress her passions under the eye of a stern mother, but channels them into her cooking. The result is a steady stream of cuisine so delicious as to be an almost erotic experience for those lucky enough to have a bite. The film's quotient of magic realism feels a little stock, but the story line is good and Arau's affinity for the sensuality of food (and of nature) is sublime. You might want to rush off to a good restaurant afterwards, but that is a good thing. The film is Rated R.

The Firehouse Theatre doors open at 6:30 and the film will begin at 7. Tickets at the door are $5. We also offer a "10 Pass" for $40 that is fully transferable and never expires. It can be used for multiple entries to the same film. We will be giving away $5 off coupons from Whole Foods - so the movie is free if you use the coupon!

Official Website: http://www.m-l-t.org/movies/