Chocolat

An unmarried woman and her young daughter arrive in a conservative French town, and set up a chocolate shop, selling a wide variety of tempting treats made from secret Mayan recipes. Her behaviour upsets the mayor, who does all in his power to turn the village against her. However, she is such a sweet person that she soon makes friends. Then some Irish river gypsies arrive, causing more consternation in the town, while she finds herself very attracted to one of them...

120 minutes.
Parental Guidance.
Romance, On the Art Circuit

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

I know the way to a man's heart...

Credits

Cast	Juliette Binoche, Lena Olin, Johhny Depp, Judi Dench, Alfred Molina
Director	Lasse Hallström
Screenplay	Robert Nelson Jacobs, from the novel by Joanne Harris
Music	Rachel Portman
Cinematography	Roger Pratt
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2000
Produced by	David Brown Productions, Fat Free Limited, Miramax Films

Official Site

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
The Moviesite Ian Douglas	13
Cape Argus Derek Wilson	15
The Cape Times Christopher Rodrigues	15
The Cape Times Julia Landau	15
The Star Joanna Rix	18
Die Burger Francois Smith	10
Sunday Times Barry Ronge	15
Rapport Barrie Hough	18
SA City Life Tony Jackman	20
SAfm Screen & Co Alan Swerdlow	12
eye Weekly Gemma Files	15
Box Office Wade Major	8
James Berardinelli	10
Total Film Denetrios Matheou	10
Film Review James Mottram	10
Uncut Chris Roberts	5
What the People say
Internet 1472 Netizens	15
Average .. 66%	13

Visitor Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
Andre Mes	18
Angel Dawson (27)	18
Colleen Thorpe (33)	18
Isma Manitsa (28)	18
Simone Eichler	16
Evan Smit (27)	19
Average .. 89%	18

Visitor Comments

Ian Douglas: The Oscar nominations ensured a very full press preview for this. I thought it good, but not *that* good to win the Best Movie award. The film may appeal more to women, as the men are not painted very sympathetically, while the women take the lead in all the action. The heroine is almost sweeter than her chocolates, which upset some of the American critics.

Andre Mes (31): What a wonderful film! I fell in love with the characters from the first moment. Binoche and Dench are superb, as is Olin and Moss, who I hardly recognised at first, she was so different to her Matrix charcater. What amused me was the simpleness of the villagers' lives and their ignorances to the outside world, even for the late 1950s. And that chocolate .... aaaaw! Maybe no masterpiece, but one of the best films of the year!

Simone Eichler (25): My father laughed through out this movie and we all left with smiles on our faces and an uncontrolable urge to eat chocolate.

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Chocolat

Credits

Ratings

What the Critics say

What the People say

Average .. 66%

Visitor Ratings

Average .. 89%

Visitor Comments