Weekend Double Feature: Food & Sex
Posted by sarcastig on May 12, 2008
I’m one of those people who doesn’t eat to live, and who lives to eat. Food really engages all the senses: how it tastes most obviously, of course, but how it smells is almost as important, how it looks, how the texture feels. Even sound comes into it: the sizzling of butter in a pan, the bubbles popping in a pot of something simmering slowly. Food can be something very luscious, and very sensual. Something closely related to desire, to sex. And there have been plenty of movies that exploit this.
Somehow, many of them have a Latin setting. Is it because people enjoy food more in Latin settings, because they pay more attention to it, or just because they seem to have more of a sensual outlook on life in general? I don’t know, but the weather’s been gorgeous for a week now already, and latin food movies are what I crave. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Weekend Double Feature | Tagged: Como Agua Para Chocolate, Estomago, Food, IFFR, Latin cinema, Like Water For Chocolate, Marcos Jorge | 2 Comments »
