Average Rating: 7.2/10
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Fresh: 42 | Rotten: 8
Boasting a masterful performance by Huppert, Merci Pour Le Chocolat is a suspenseful psychological thriller.
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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 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
PG, 1 hr. 39 min.
Oct 25, 2000 Wide
Apr 22, 2003
MK2
All Critics (58) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (42) | Rotten (9) | DVD (4)
A tasty appetizer that leaves you wanting more.
An elegant, exquisitely modulated psychological thriller.
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.
Huppert gives what may be her wittiest passive-aggressive performance yet.
Every moment of the way, there is a delectable sense of suble menace.
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.
This is not Chabrol's best, but even his lesser works outshine the best some directors can offer.
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.
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, 2005Super 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
Super Reviewer
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