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Lumi Cavazos and Marco Leonardi in Like Water for Chocolate (1992)

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Like Water for Chocolate

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Continuity

When Tita receives the roses from Pedro for being the ranch's cook for one year, they are light pink/coral. When she's preparing to make quails with rose petal sauce, the roses are red. This is a nod to the novel upon which this film is based, wherein it is explained that the pink roses turn red after their thorns scratch Tita's chest (as shown in the film), and the petals absorb some of Tita's blood.

Factual errors

When Dr. Brown holds up a piece of white phosphorus, nothing happens. White phosphorus ignites in air at room temperature, however, so it should have been shown burning.

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Anachronisms

At Esperanza's wedding to Alex Brown, the groom is shown opening a bottle of André Champagne, complete with plastic cork, in 1934 long before this product was available.
Background music while Tita and Nacha are cooking in the kitchen tells the story of a car breakdown.

Audio/visual unsynchronised

When the narrator says "that night she [Tita] cried and knitted" Tita is clearly shown crocheting with one hook instead of knitting, which requires two.

Crew or equipment visible

Reflected in a window during a dolly shot as Tita leaves the table while everyone eats their cake.

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