Like Water for Chocolate

I watched Like Water for Chocolate tonight. It's a Mexican movie that takes place in the turn of century, during political upheaval. It's a magical realist love story about a young girl who is deeply in love with a young man whom she can't marry because her mother wants her, as the youngest daughter, to stay single and take care of her when she's old. So instead the young man marries one of her sisters.

It follows how they all live together with this illicit passion in the household. It is beautifully rendered, but I didn't fully get into it. Part of my problem was I didn't care for the young man at all. The ending was also a bit over-the-top.