In Tita's kitchen, ordinary spices become a recipe for passion.
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.
DramaRomancejealousysibling relationshipbased on novel or bookcookingmarriagemexican revolutionplatonic loveweddingsingle mothermagic realismformer loverslovers separated
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Character
Earnest, grave, overwhelming and effortless.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Lumi CavazosTita
- Marco LeonardiPedro Muzquiz
- Regina TornéMamá Elena
- Mario Iván MartínezJohn Brown
- Ada CarrascoNacha
- Yareli ArizmendiRosaura
- Claudette MailléGertrudis
- Pilar ArandaChencha
- Farnesio de BernalCura
- Joaquín GarridoSergeant Treviño
Crew
- Alfonso ArauDirector
- Laura EsquivelScreenplay
- Laura EsquivelNovel
- Emmanuel LubezkiDirector of Photography
- Steven BernsteinDirector of Photography
- Leo BrouwerOriginal Music Composer
- Carlos BoladoEditor
- Francisco ChiliEditor
- Alfonso ArauProducer
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