santitos have many wonderful thing represent great photography by xavier perez grobet and some good acting and particularly by demian bichir and and the supporting actor and excellent art direction and a nice sense of humor and a good music score by carlo nicolau . it weakness be a wooden performance by the actress who play esperanza and the main character . with a good and more expressive actor and this movie could have soar and since she have to carry the bulk of it . she lovely to look at and but her performance lack character . the story drag on a little bit too long and doesn not really seem to have much of a point . a be typical in mexico it seem that woman can only be either saint or whore and the novel and screenplay be write by a woman . however and it a promise first film by alejandro springall and will undoubtedly delight fan of the like water for chocolate school of magical realism .