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Other movies with that magical quality?


I love the magical elements in this movie. It wasn't an out-right fantasy film but it definitely had a magical quality to it. What other movies have that quality?

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Awesome movie. first i read the novel by esquivel, i thought dat it was going to be a mess and it would destroy how i picture the movie like "El coronel no tiene quien le escriba" from arturo ripstein but this one was good. probably you are searching for magical realism, "el norte" is a good one sometime Woody Allen films. But movies with fantastic elements you must watch all of ingmar bergman films. he is a master doing dat.

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Simply Irresistible has the same theme of magic and food. But that's an awful movie. But I don't know, some people might like it...

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Just read, "A Hundred Years of Solitude." Best book I've ever read.

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I asked a similar question on another board. Here are some of the movies mentioned.

Woman on Top
Big Fish
Enchanted Cottage
Field of Dreams
The Secret of Roan Inish
Edward Scissorhands
Till Human Voices Wake us
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Finding Neverland



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oooo..you forgot "simply irreistible" (i'm sorry, I really suck at spelling) but it's with sarah michelle gellar..early 90's i believe. kinda the same as this movie...but "americanized"

Love isn't always perfect...love is just...love

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Inkheart
The House of the Spirits (magical realism being a major theme in central and South American literature, books drawn from them are often touched by the same)

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Amelie!

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How about Chocolat (2000)?

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Well, not exactly the same theme, but how about "A Walk In The Clouds"?

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"Henry Fool" and "The Cooler" are a couple of examples of what I would consider magical realism in film.

In "Henry Fool" a young garbage man writes poetry that is viewed by some people as pornography and by others as brilliant poetry. One girl, a mute, sings upon reading the poetry.

In "The Cooler" a man has such awful luck that by just coming near a table in a casino causes the person playing to start to lose.

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"Spirit of the beehive" is a really beautiful film,the world as seen through the eyes of a child.

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PRACTICAL MAGIC (1998). Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, Adian Quinn. Good Witches.
"Grow rosemary by your gardin gate, plant lavender for luck, and fall in love whenever you can."
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I love Chocolat, but how is that magical realism?

'Sooner or later... you really wear that suit'

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I thought the 'magical realism' in the film - mainly rather unimpressive fireworks - detracted from its magical feel and made it seem rather clunky!

Most of Tarkovsky's films have that quality, you remember images from them days after seeing them.

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Mistress of Spices (2005) starring Aishwarya Rai is another one. It's just like 'Like Water For Chocolate' and 'Chocolat,' though in my opinion, not as successful. Still, a pretty good film with magical realism elements. Aishwarya Rai's beauty makes it worth the watch just as Juliette Binoche saved Chocolat (IMO the book was much better than the movie, but Binoche was perfect!).

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The Mistress of Spices of novel is SO MUCH better than the movie. if you love Like Water for Chocolate, def read Mistress of Spices.

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"I love the magical elements in this movie. It wasn't an out-right fantasy film but it definitely had a magical quality to it. What other movies have that quality?"

magic realism or magic realist film etc.

I saw this one movie that was very beautifu called Tango, no me dejes nunca. Not sure if it was magic realist or not, but I was part reality part fantasy intertwining.

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Check out:

Millions

What Dreams May Come

Babette's Feast

Cinema Paradiso



and I also agree with a previous suggestion of Big Fish,
Chocolat, Amelie - three of my favorites!

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Another movie with cooking and magical realism is

Scent of the Green Papaya



Fay Wheldon does the same things in her novels:

Check out if you can find it

The cloning of joanna may (a little magical realism and a little sci-fi too)

Live and loves of a She-Devil (the British version, not the awful Americanized version)

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thanks. It's nice to see this thread is still alive after all this time.

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