HBO’s upcoming adaptation of Laura Esquivel’s Like Water For Chocolate actually thrusts the traditional 1989 novel into the trendy age. HBO simply launched its first teaser for the collection, and it incorporates a number of pictures that appear like they may have been plucked proper off of Emerald Fennell‘s Saltburn imaginative and prescient board.
The teaser begins with a complete lot of lustful staring between the movie’s leads Tita de la Garza (Azul Guaita) and Pedro Múzquiz (Andrés Baida), however PG-13 Twilight this isn’t. Quickly, we see the pair consummate their need in full HBO vogue, leaving the mattress to actually burn of their wake once they’re accomplished. Naturally, their love is forbidden. “Tita, my youngest daughter, won’t ever marry,” Mamá Elena (Irene Azuela) says in a voiceover. “She’s going to stay obedient by my facet to take care of me till the day I die.”
Taking its personal path distinct from the favored 1992 movie, a synopsis of the HBO collection reads:
Like Water For Chocolate explores the concept that typically traditions can change into a jail, an impediment for love. Tita de la Garza and Pedro Múzquiz are two souls deeply in love, but unable to be collectively as a consequence of entrenched household customs. The protagonists navigate a world of magical realism and wealthy flavors as Tita struggles between the future imposed on her by her household and her battle for love. Alongside the best way, the viewers will witness her best refuge: the kitchen. For Tita, her magical connection to cooking turns into an lively resistance towards oppression, permitting her to channel her deepest needs and passions into her recipes, reworking those that style them.
The press launch additionally notes that the collection is about through the Mexican Revolution and was filmed on-location in Tlaxcala and Mexico Metropolis.
Along with Guaita, Baida, and Azuela, Like Water For Chocolate additionally stars Ana Valeria Becerril, Andrea Chaparro, Ángeles Cruz, Mauricio García Lozano, Ari Brickman, and Louis David Horné. The primary episode of the collection premieres November 3 on HBO and Max, with subsequent episodes airing weekly.
