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Chocolat (2000)

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Reviews Counted: 113 Fresh: 70  Rotten:43 Average Rating: 6/10
 
Consensus: Chocolat is a charmingly light-hearted fable with a lovely performance by Binoche.
 

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Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins

Theatrical Release: Dec 15, 2000 Limited

Box Office: $71,309,760

Synopsis: It is the late 1950s, but it might as well be the late 1850s in a small French town where everyone behaves as they should (supposedly), and attends church regularly. When a strong North wind blows through town, it brings the vivacious and mysterious Vianne (Juliette Binoche) and her young... It is the late 1950s, but it might as well be the late 1850s in a small French town where everyone behaves as they should (supposedly), and attends church regularly. When a strong North wind blows through town, it brings the vivacious and mysterious Vianne (Juliette Binoche) and her young daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol). Vianne is soon the talk of the town: an unwed mother who declines to go to church and opens up a chocolate shop in the midst of Lent. Her good-natured, honorable personality and psychic ability (she can predict what kind of sweets best suit each person, and magically cures each of them of their particular maladies) make her as irresistible as her delectable treats. However, Vianne and her daughter are resented by the conservative mayor, the Comte de Reynaud (Alfred Molina), and by the pious Caroline (Carrie-Anne Moss), who has disowned her own spirited mother (Judi Dench, who plays Vianne's landlady), refusing the elderly woman access to her beloved grandson.This touching fairy tale, based on the novel by Joanne Harris, was filmed on location in rural France. An intelligent, exquisitely filmed fable that deals with the idea of 20th Century paganism rising up against a closed-minded church and a persevering aristocracy, CHOCOLAT is enjoyable, romantic, and entertaining, with affecting performances by both its stars and its supporting actors (Lena Olin and Johnny Depp.) [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, Lena Olin

Director: Lasse Hallström
Screenwriter: Robert Nelson Jacobs
Producer: David Brown, Kit Golden, Leslie Holleran
Composer: Rachel Portman

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Dec 11, 2001

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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.

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09/24/07
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A mythic fable about tolerance and love with the bitter-swet flavor of a candy that's not entirely fresh but still digestible.

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05/31/06
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04/09/05
Robin Clifford
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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.

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12/06/04
Jeffrey Overstreet
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12/15/03
Alexander Walker
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12/15/03
Matthew Bond
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3/4

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05/14/03
Jeanne Aufmuth
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5/5

I've not had a film make me crave chockies so much since Willy Wonka.

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02/08/03
John R. McEwen
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01/07/03
David Poland
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2.5/5

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.

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12/08/02
Michael Dequina
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10/30/02
Matthew Turner
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A charming film with serious undertones.

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10/21/02
Jean Lowerison
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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.

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10/15/02
Margaret A. McGurk
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A charming romantic fantasy with delicious performances by the entire cast.

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08/02/02
Betty Jo Tucker
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Carries on somewhat predictably, but is charming all the way through.

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07/12/02
Jeffrey Chen
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06/19/02
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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whimsical and lighthearted, a simple fable with no real message to impart except that Christianity without compassion can quickly dissolve into empty ritual.

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06/15/02
James Sanford
Kalamazoo Gazette
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3/5

Hallström não consegue definir o tom apropriado para a narrativa e acaba oscilando entre a fábula e o real.

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05/31/02
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