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Like Water for Chocolate (1992)

Directed by Alfonso Arau · Cinematography by Emmanuel Lubezki, Steven Bernstein

R105 min143 frames

DramaRomance

In Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion.

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What is Like Water for Chocolate about?

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.

Like Water for Chocolate is a 1992 Mexican romantic drama film produced and directed by Alfonso Arau, and written by Laura Esquivel, who adapted her 1989 debut novel. It earned 10 Ariel Awards including the Best Picture, and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film. The film became the highest-grossing foreign-language film ever released in the United States at the time. The film was selected as the Mexican entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 65th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

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Across 140 sampled frames, Like Water for Chocolate builds its coverage from medium shots (60% of the sample), with close-ups (30%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki keeps 48% of it in soft, naturalistic light. 50% of the frames play at night or in the failing light of dusk. Vintage glass shapes the frame. Focus stays shallow in 89% of the frames, isolating subjects from their surroundings.

What is the color palette of Like Water for Chocolate?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Like Water for Chocolate (1992) are #382e29, #271a13, #d6c7af, #d1b290, #8c6d52, #4c382b — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

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