Direction
Lasse Hallström
Script
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Music
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Actors
Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Lena Olin
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CHOCOLAT is a comic fable about how just one taste of
life's pleasures can change a person, a relationship, a town. This is a tale
of temptation, repression and the liberating powers of the senses - the
comedic story of an escalating small-town war sparked by the passions and
fears aroused by the arrival of a mysterious chocolate shop.
It all begins in the traditional French village of Lansquenet, where life
has not changed for the last 100 years. As the North Wind blows through a
seemingly tranquil town, it carries with it a traveler Vianne Rocher (JULIETTE
BINOCHE) and her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol). Vianne is an outsider
who opens a chocolaterie filled with irresistible confections that awaken
the townspeople's hidden appetites. But, her magical ability to perceive the
villager's private desires, and satisfy them with just the right confection,
slowly persuades a few to abandon themselves to her temptations.
Soon, Vianne develops a reputation ... and an enemy: the righteous local
nobleman the Comte de Reynaud (ALFRED MOLINA). Revnaud is convinced that
Vianne's sumptuous chocolate will wreak havoc with the town and undermine
their strict code of morality. Between them, they set off a confrontation
between those who would keep life the same and those who would revel in
their newly discovered taste for freedom.
Along the way, Vianne has a profound effect on the village's inhabitants,
including the 70 year-old libertine Armande (JUDI DENCH) and her estranged
daughter Caroline (CARRIE-ANNE MOSS); the long-suffering Josephine Muscat
(LENA OLIN) and her brutish husband Serge (PETER STORMARE); and another
unusual outsider, the riverboat traveler Roux (JOHNNY DEPP), who awakens
Vianne's own secret desire: to truly belong. |
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