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...dies and is buried, is a knockout, probably the most powerful moment in the production. Petra's death and interment take place against a back-ground of the villagers' overlapping voices, repeating phrases in an incantatory fashion. The effect recalls a scene in Juan Rulfo's classic novel Pedro Paramo, where the narrator is killed by voices. In this production, the scene has a hypnotic effect on the audience which is difficult to shake, and here the play seems to bear a closer affinity with the work of Rulfo than with that of Garcia Marquez...
...Chocolate, is one such kitchen magician. It is said that she cried even in her mother's womb and that the salt from her tears at birth filled a 40-lb. sack that spiced the family meals for years. She has so much love to give -- especially to Pedro (Marco Leonardi), a handsome rancher -- but upper-class convention would strangle it. Her tyrannical mother Elena (Regina Torne) decreed that as her youngest daughter, Tita must care for her and never marry...
Denied her life's love and condemned to the serving life, Tita finds in cooking the steam of sorcery. When Pedro marries her sister Rosaura (Yareli Arizmendi) simply to be near Tita, she bakes a wedding cake that leaves the celebrators sick or spellbound. When Pedro dares to give her a bouquet of roses, she presses them ecstatically to her chest -- the scratches are as close as she can get to Pedro's caresses -- and then prepares a heady quail with rose-petal sauce. Her culinary witchcraft will affect many births, marriages and deaths. But they will not stanch...
...Desire," the last film Pedro Almodovar made before his international hit "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown", stands at a pivotal point in the Spanish director's repetoire. It combines the technical sheen of his later films with the kinky irreverence of his earlier work...
...send a message that needed no translation: they wanted to keep a 1991 law that made Espanol -- and Espanol only -- Puerto Rico's official language. But the next day, the Puerto Rican legislature passed a bill making both Spanish and English official languages in the U.S. commonwealth. Later, Governor Pedro Rossello signed the measure, saying, "Now we have two hymns, two flags, two languages...