Merci Pour le Chocolat (2000)
Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 51
Fresh: 43 | Rotten: 8
Boasting a masterful performance by Huppert, Merci Pour Le Chocolat is a suspenseful psychological thriller.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 1
Boasting a masterful performance by Huppert, Merci Pour Le Chocolat is a suspenseful psychological thriller.
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Claude Chabrol directed this well-crafted thriller, which recalls the style and themes of his best-known work of the 1960s. Marie-Claire "Mika" Muller (Isabelle Huppert), who has inherited control of a large and successful Swiss chocolate company, remarries well-known musician André Polonski (Jacques Dutronc), to whom she was briefly wed 18 years ago. After their divorce, André married a woman named Lisabeth and they had a son, Guillaume (Rodolphe Pauly), whom André was left to raise alone after
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Isabelle Huppert
Marie-Claire "Mika" Mul... -
Jacques Dutronc
André Polonski, André ... -
Rodolphe Pauly
Guillaume -
Michel Robin
Dufreigne -
Brigitte Catillon
Louise Pollet -
Mathieu Simonet
Axel -
Anna Mougalis
Jeanne
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All Critics (60) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (9) | DVD (4)
We can rejoice that he carries on, breathes his profession as his native air, makes pictures of varying quality but persistently makes them.
Top CriticA tasty appetizer that leaves you wanting more.
An elegant, exquisitely modulated psychological thriller.
It's enough to watch Huppert scheming, with her small, intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain, and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that Chabrol spins.
Merci Pour le Chocolat has a restraint and rigor that we don't see in commercial American films, the kind that a director creates when he has no interest in sentimentality or in soliciting the audience's favor.
A sun-drenched masterpiece, part parlor game, part psychological case study, part droll social satire.
Predictable? Maybe, but for artists like these the motivation is always more important than the act itself.
The ensemble cast all sparkled.
A disappointing DVD treatment for Claude Chabrol's must-see psychological thriller.
Weighty and ponderous but every bit as filling as the treat of the title.
Huppert's show to steal and she makes a meal of it, channeling Kathy Baker's creepy turn as the repressed mother on Boston Public as much as 8 Women's Augustine.
A fascinating piece...assured and frequently witty.
The big finish is a bit like getting all excited about a chocolate eclair and then biting into it and finding the filling missing.
Hitch would enjoy the way Chabrol plays with the audience (including the expertly interwoven Lizt requiem)
Like being invited to a classy dinner soiree and not knowing anyone. You leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt, but no new friends.
Credit Huppert as much as Chabrol for the film's success.
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Foreign Titles
- Süßes Gift (DE)
- Nightcap (Merci Pour le Chocolat) (UK)
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[font=Century Gothic][color=#ff0000]Another film, that he directed, "Merci Pour Le Chocolat" starts out with a wedding of two middle aged people - concert pianist, Andre Polonski and chocolate factory owner Mika Muller. Then, we shift to a story being told to a young concert pianist, Jeanne Pollet, about a near mixup at the hospital when she was born between her and the Polonskis' baby. Jeanne imagines herself as Polonski's daughter. Oh, and Polonski's first wife died, falling asleep at the wheel of the car...So, what transpires is a thoughtful rumination on family and genetics that ends on a suspenseful note. [/color][/font][font=Century Gothic][color=#ff0000][/color][/font]
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[font=Century Gothic][color=#ff0000]Note: at the wedding, one of the characters mentions that Polonski is a great pianist but not a great human being.(It is true that the only thing that interests Polonski is playing the piano which forges a quick bond between him and Jeanne.) Which got me thinking about whether or not any resemblence between the fictional Polonski and the real life Roman Polanski was intended.[/color][/font]