Average Rating: 6/10
Reviews Counted: 115
Fresh: 73 | Rotten: 42
Chocolat is a charmingly light-hearted fable with a lovely performance by Binoche.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 32
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 12
Chocolat is a charmingly light-hearted fable with a lovely performance by Binoche.
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The most tempting of all sweets becomes the key weapon in a battle of sensual pleasure versus disciplined self-denial in this comedy. In 1959, a mysterious woman named Vianne (Juliette Binoche) moves with her young daughter into a small French village, where much of the community's activities are dominated by the local Catholic church. A few days after settling into town, Vianne opens up a confectionery shop across the street from the house of worship -- shortly after the beginning of Lent.
Dec 15, 2000 Wide
Aug 7, 2001
$71.3M
Miramax
All Critics (133) | Top Critics (33) | Fresh (78) | Rotten (42) | DVD (22)
Ultimately, especially coming from director Lasse Hallstrom, such a slight flick doubles as a fat disappointment.
A sinfully scrumptious bonbon.
Hallstrom has created the cinematic equivalent of chocolate on screen. Who could resist?
One of those whimsical concoctions that tries too hard, and goes too long, for its own good.
Chocolat, like Hallstrom's adaptation of The Cider House Rules, succeeds primarily through its casting.
An appealing comic fable aimed at those with a bittersweet tooth.
Fabulous French fairy tale for teens and up.
It takes the radical stance that people should indulge their pleasures, unless they're really mean, in which case they should eat some chocolate and learn to be nice.
A mythic fable about tolerance and love with the bitter-swet flavor of a candy that's not entirely fresh but still digestible.
Most movies that criticize religion argue for the abolition of institutions. Chocolat suggests the problem lies in how people manipulate religion to get what they want.
Like other magical realist works, Chocolat blends realistic and mystical ingredients in a concoction that's one part drama and one part deadpan comedy
I've not had a film make me crave chockies so much since Willy Wonka.
Whether or not viewers end up licking their fingers to pick up the scraps ... depends on their tolerance for a different type of sugary sin: syrup.
A charming film with serious undertones.
Any movie built on the premise that chocolate can cure mental illness, restore marital passion, unite feuding relatives, assuage anger, defeat oppression, inspire art and get you a date with Johnny Depp is all right in my book.
A fairy-tale that obviously doesn't qualify as my favorite. You don't need no Vianne to tell that. Kids, among others, might find this Chocolat tasty.
January 9, 2009Super Reviewer
An international all star cast help concoct this pleasing little truffle about walking the thin line between sin and pleasure, magic and reality.
July 7, 2007Super Reviewer
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