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LIKE A BRIDE is the delightful story of two young women coming of age in the sixties in Mexico City, their lives shaped by the pressures of conflicting family and societal expectations. Oshinica Mataraso (played by Claudette Maille, the red-headed beauty from LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE) is the daughter of Turkish Jewish immigrants who have installed themselves in the garment business in Mexico City's Lagunilla market district. Her tradition-bound family believes a woman's sole goal ought to be marriage. Oshinica has other ideas. She dreams of living out her life as an artist. Rifke Groman (Maya Mishalska), the daughter of intellectual European Holocaust refugees, introduces Oshinica to the freedom and community of her Zionist Socialist youth movement. Both must ultimately defy their families in order to pursue happiness. This well-crafted film paints a compassionate and insightful portrait of women straddling tradition and modernity and of the ethnic complexity in modern urban Mexico.
