A sweet nothing assembled from pre-tested art-house ingredients: food, samba, magic realism, a you-go-girl transvestite, and, at the center of it all, Penelope Cruz as a hot-blooded Brazilian (a few years past it would have been Sonia Braga) whose endowments in beauty and in culinary artistry are counterbalanced by the curse of motion sickness: a steeply tilted set of scales. With Murilo Benicio, Mark Feuerstein, and Harold Perrineau, Jr.; directed by Fina Torres. (2000) — Duncan Shepherd
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