Like Water For Chocolate Book Review 2024 Review. Playful in its flirtation with magical realism and engaging in its folkloric earthiness but, nonetheless, light, romantic. It’s a show about the.
And it’s not just the costumes or the sets, although they are both clearly rendered with care. Salma hayek pinault’s new adaptation of laura esquivel’s 1989 novel “like water for chocolate” — as a sumptuous period melodrama for hbo — falls squarely into the latter.