Hot chocolate: Food nourishes the magical realism in the 1992 international sensation Like Water For Chocolate. When Tita is forbidden from marrying her true love Pedro due to her place in the family lineage, he marries her older sister. Tita becomes a cook, and channels her undying passion for her brother-in-law into meals with special powers, including one in which a rose petal sauce induces a lustful frenzy. The titillating film winds through themes of gender and tradition while composing a fantastical recipe for the power of love.
Wednesday 5/5, $6.50-8. 3 and 7pm. The Paramount Theater, 215 E. Main St., Downtown Mall. theparamount.net.
