Volume CXXXIII, Number 6 October 24, 2003

BFS shows Mexican masterpiece
DAVIN MICHAELS
COLUMNIST

For Homecoming Weekend, the Bowdoin Film Society is putting on a very special event co-sponsored with LASO (Latin American Student Organization) to help celebrate Latin American Month. There will be two screenings of the film, Como Agua Para Chocolate or Like Water for Chocolate (1992).

LASO is a club at Bowdoin which spends the year educating its members and the campus about Latino Culture and the various issues affecting the Latin American community through discussions, dinners, Common Hour events, dances, and workshops. LASO is making an effort to reach out to the community this weekend to help celebrate Latino culture with a popular film that received rave reviews.

Like Water for Chocolate is a Mexican film, in Spanish with English subtitles. It is about a couple, Tita and Pedro, who are in love but are forbidden to marry because of Tita's mother. Mama Elena wants Tita to remain at home and be her personal caretaker, never marrying. Mama Elena then offers Tita's sister to Pedro, and much to Tita's dismay, Pedro accepts. However, after Pedro moves into the house, there is no way for Tita and Pedro's love to stay hidden.

The film, directed by Alfonso Arau and written by Laura Esquivel (who also wrote the novel the film was based on), is a wonderful love story about how life used to be in Mexico and the many traditions one had to overcome in search of true love. The film includes some spectacular performances by Marco Leonardi (Pedro), Lumi Cavazos (Tita), and Regina Torne (Mama Elena).

Please come and see this film and help BFS and LASO celebrate. Like Water for Chocolate will be showing in Smith Auditorium on the first floor of Sills Hall tonight and tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. We hope you enjoy the show!

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