Sex, food; food, sex - what's the difference? When young Tita, played by Lumi Cavazos, cooks dinner for the man she loves, there is absolutely none. Well, almost.

As the youngest of three sisters Tita is obliged by family tradition to stay home and look after her mum instead of marrying young buck Pedro Muzquiz, played by Marco Leonardi.

She vents her frustrated passions through her cookery, pouring so much love into her quail with rose petals that everyone at the table has an orgasm there and then.

With the water boiling up nicely for hot chocolate all round, dessert promises to be very interesting indeed.

Como agua para chocolate is the sixth feature of Mexican actor-director Alfonso Arau, known for his parts in Romancing the Stone and The Wild Bunch.

Adapted from her best-seller of the same name by Arau's wife, Laura Esquivel, it went on to record an impressive US$11 million during the 1993 summer season.

Adam Minns

Prod cos: Arau, Imcine, Fonatur, Cinevista

Prod/Dir: Alfonso Arau

Scr: Laura Esquivel

Ph: Emmanuel Lubezki, Steve Bernstein

Ed: Carlos Bolado

Music: Leo Brower

Cast: Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, Regine Torne John, Mario Ivan Martinez, Ada Carrasco, Claudette Maille

Running time: 106 mins

Screening: 27 June, KCP-Kongressovy

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