Sunday, January 30, 2011

Immigrants, Magical Realism, and Food


Now, as you well know, I have a strange fondness for heart warming immigrant movies about food like Tortilla Soup and What's Cooking.  Also, I love magical realism, like Practical Magic (sadly unavailable to watch instantly) or Long Life, Happiness and Prosperity. (review below)  Then, there are those perfect-for-sara movies about immigrants, magic, AND food.  My favorite of these is:  
Woman on Top: This is a lovely, funny, sweet movie staring Penelope Cruz as a Brazilian chef running away from her macho philandering husband to make a new start with her transgendered best friend in San Francisco (played by that pretty guy who played Mercutio and the narrator on Oz).  She makes an offering to Yemanja to take away her love so she can be free to start over.  B+
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Woman_on_Top/60001557?trkid=2361637#height1608

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