Like Water for Chocolate | Adaptations
After publishing Like Water for Chocolate in Mexico in 1989, Esquivel wrote a screenplay based on the novel, which was subsequently produced and directed by her husband, Alfonso Alau, distributed in Mexico by Arau Films International, and then, with subtitles, by Miramax in the United States. Esquivel had been a screenwriter first, before ever writing a novel, and so the usual sequence of book first, film second, was somewhat altered in this instance. Esquivel herself admits that to a certain extent, from the start the book was written through a camera's eye. "I see an image and then...
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