The Mistress of Spices
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- Synopsis
- Director Paul Mayeda Berges adapts author Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni magic realist tale about an enchanting Indian orphan who has leaned to harness the magical properties of spices....
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- Director(s)
- Paul Mayeda Berges
- Distributor(s)
- Rainbow Film Co.
- MPAA Rating
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 92 min.
Critic Reviews
This is a one-dimensional, sometimes illogical film, but it's certainly good-looking.Read the full review
Beautiful but lifeless, poetic but unelevated, The Mistress of Spices reps a brave but flawed attempt at that most unforgiving of contemporary genres, magical realism.Read the full review
Shades of "Like Water for Chocolate" and "Chocolat" -- but unlike the latter's tender Juliette Binoche-Johnny Depp romance, the ordained Rai-McDermott union fails to generate any convincing heat, and no amount of cardamom pods or lotus root is going to help.Read the full review
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