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Merci Pour le Chocolat (2000)

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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Reviews Counted: 50
Fresh: 42 | Rotten: 8

Boasting a masterful performance by Huppert, Merci Pour Le Chocolat is a suspenseful psychological thriller.

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Average Rating: 7.8/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 0

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 Andr� Polonski (Jacques Dutronc), to whom she was briefly wed 18 years ago. After their divorce, Andr� married a woman named Lisabeth and they had a son, Guillaume (Rodolphe Pauly), whom Andr� was left to raise alone after

PG, 1 hr. 39 min.

Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense

Directed By: Claude Chabrol

Written By: Caroline Eliacheff, Claude Chabrol

In Theaters: Oct 25, 2000 Wide

On DVD: Apr 22, 2003

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Cast

Isabelle Huppert
Marie-Claire "Mika" Mul...
Jacques Dutronc
André Polonski, Andr� ...
Rodolphe Pauly
Guillaume
Michel Robin
Dufreigne
Brigitte Catillon
Louise Pollet
Mathieu Simonet
Axel
Anna Mougalis
Jeanne

Critic Reviews for Merci Pour le Chocolat

All Critics (58) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (9) | DVD (4)

A tasty appetizer that leaves you wanting more.

November 29, 2002 Full Review Source: Dallas Morning News

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Philip Wuntch

Dallas Morning News

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An elegant, exquisitely modulated psychological thriller.

November 8, 2002 Comment

Susan Stark

Detroit News

Top Critic

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.

October 18, 2002 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Edward Guthmann

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

A sun-drenched masterpiece, part parlor game, part psychological case study, part droll social satire.

October 17, 2002 Full Review Source: San Jose Mercury News

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Glenn Lovell

San Jose Mercury News

Top Critic

Huppert gives what may be her wittiest passive-aggressive performance yet.

September 27, 2002 Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly

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Owen Gleiberman

Entertainment Weekly

Top Critic

Every moment of the way, there is a delectable sense of suble menace.

September 20, 2002 Comment

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

Top Critic

Predictable? Maybe, but for artists like these the motivation is always more important than the act itself.

May 5, 2010 Full Review Source: East Bay Express

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Kelly Vance

East Bay Express

The ensemble cast all sparkled.

August 13, 2003 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A disappointing DVD treatment for Claude Chabrol's must-see psychological thriller.

April 21, 2003 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine

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Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

Weighty and ponderous but every bit as filling as the treat of the title.

March 26, 2003 Full Review Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

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Harry Guerin

RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland) Source: RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

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.

February 7, 2003 Comment

Jon Popick

Planet Sick-Boy

A fascinating piece...assured and frequently witty.

December 2, 2002 Full Review Source: One Guy's Opinion

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Frank Swietek

One Guy's Opinion

The big finish is a bit like getting all excited about a chocolate eclair and then biting into it and finding the filling missing.

November 29, 2002 Full Review Source: TheMovieChicks.com

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Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone

TheMovieChicks.com

Hitch would enjoy the way Chabrol plays with the audience (including the expertly interwoven Lizt requiem)

October 29, 2002 Full Review Source: ToxicUniverse.com

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John A. Nesbit

ToxicUniverse.com

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.

October 24, 2002 Full Review Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

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Laura Kelly

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Credit Huppert as much as Chabrol for the film's success.

October 21, 2002 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

This is not Chabrol's best, but even his lesser works outshine the best some directors can offer.

October 21, 2002 Full Review Source: San Diego Metropolitan

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Jean Lowerison

San Diego Metropolitan

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.

October 18, 2002 Full Review Source: Seattle Times

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Moira MacDonald

Seattle Times

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Watching a Claude Chabrol film is like walking along, looking up at the sky for UFO's while not seeing the wall, that you're about to walk into. Chabrol's films are refreshingly straight-forward which can work very well in a film like "This Man Must Die" but can also backfire like it did in "Flower of Evil" where

February 16, 2005

Walter M.

Super Reviewer

A somewhat average thriller from Chabrol. It starts out well enough, but losses it towards the end and ultimately leaves too many questions unanswered. However despite it's weaknesses it's always worthwhile watching Huppert and at least you get to listen to Liszt's 'Funerailles' pretty much throughout the film.

January 16, 2009