Isabella (Penelope Cruz) is a master chef who suffers from severe motion sickness, requiring her to be in control of her movements at all times. This need extends to the bedroom, but her husband Tonino (Murilo Benicio), who owns the restaurant where she works, doesn’t like to make love in the fashion suggested by the title. This is hardly the only thing about their relationship that she finds stifling, and when Isabella discovers Tonino in bed with another woman, she leaves for America, where with the help of cross-dressing friend “Monica” (Harold Perrineau Jr.), she becomes a star as the host of a TV cooking show, Passion Foods Live. Woman on Top was the first American film from Venezuelan director Fina Torres.

Taste of cinema
We devote more and more attention to healthy nurtition, awareness of what and how we eat. Culinary themes are undoubtedly on top. We set up blogs with recipes, learn to photograph dishes, go to diet specialists, slow food, fit food, good food! Cinema has long been inspired by culinary art and draws on themes of stories told. Also the cinema screen at teh Centre for Culture is full of fantastic dishes, flavors and smells, kitchen stories.