Chocolat (2000)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Lasse Hallström

Writers (WGA):

Joanne Harris (based on the novel by)
Robert Nelson Jacobs (screenplay)

Release Date:

5 January 2001 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Tagline:

A comic fable from the director of "The Cider House Rules".

Plot:

A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.

Plot Keywords:

Chocolate | France | Lent | 1960s | Church

Awards:

Nominated for 5 Oscars. Another 8 wins & 28 nominations

Cast

Juliette Binoche	...	Vianne Rocher
Alfred Molina	...	Comte Paul de Reynaud
Carrie-Anne Moss	...	Caroline Clairmont
Judi Dench	...	Armande Voizin
Antonio Gil	...	Jean-Marc Drou (as Antonio Gil-Martinez)
Hélène Cardona	...	Francoise Drou
Johnny Depp	...	Roux
Hugh O'Conor	...	Pere Henri
Harrison Pratt	...	Dedou Drou
Gaelan Connell	...	Didi Drou
Lena Olin	...	Josephine Muscat
Elisabeth Commelin	...	Yvette Marceau
Peter Stormare	...	Serge Muscat
Ron Cook	...	Alphonse Marceau
Aurelien Parent Koenig	...	Luc Clairmont (as Aurèlien Parent Koenig)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for a scene of sensuality and some violence.

Runtime:

121 min

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color (Technicolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

USA:PG-13 (Certificate No. 37889) | Iceland:L | Malaysia:U | South Korea:12 | USA:TV-14 (TV rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Canada:PG (Canadian Home Video rating) | Chile:14 | Denmark:A | Finland:K-11 | France:U | Germany:6 | Hong Kong:IIA | Netherlands:12 | New Zealand:M | Norway:11 | Peru:14 | Portugal:M/12 | Singapore:M18 | Spain:T | Sweden:7 | UK:12

Filming Locations:

Beynac, Dordogne, France

Company:

Miramax Films

Trivia:

Juliette Binoche went to a chocolate shop in Paris to learn how to make chocolates.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: Any place which has snow and ice on the ground, should have the breath of people visible. Several times early in the movie, it is implied it is winter through snow on the ground, but you cannot see anyone's breath.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Storyteller: Once upon a time, there was a quiet little village in the French countryside, whose people believed in Tranquilité - Tranquility. If you lived in this village, you understood what was expected of you. You knew your place in the scheme of things. And if you happened to forget...

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Fronterz (2004)

Soundtrack:

God Of Mercy And Compassion

Delightful

This movie starts being a comedy, and finishes with drama and romance genre. And it's one of the greatest movies I already saw, with such a good atmosphere and also one of the most appetizing scenes ever.(It's really hard watching this movie while you are on a diet!) (Juliette Binoche is terrific as Vianne Rocher and Johnny Depp as Roux is so sexy!)

Viane Rocher is the owner of a chocolaterie in a small Town of France; She and her daughter Anouk are always traveling to different places to live,following the Maya's tradition, since Viane herself is daughter of a Mayan woman.In the small town, Viane makes new friends, and tries to help the people there with her cacao recipes and her talent to guess the deep desires and the favorite chocolates of everybody who talks to her. Her problems start to complicate when the Comte De Reynaud tries to boycott her store, and a sexy foreigner named Roux come to the small town with his group,making Vianne attracted to him and for the first time not guessing what is his favorite chocolate and what is behind the mysterious guy.