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Chocolat (Miramax Collector's Series)
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: BINOCHE,JULIETTE
EAN: 9780788827006
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0788827006
Label: Miramax
Languages: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled),
Manufacturer: Miramax
MPN: 786936145076
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Miramax
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 07, 2001
Running Time: 122 minutes
Studio: Miramax
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
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Editorial Review:
With movies like Chocolat, it's always best to relax your intellectual faculties and absorb the abundant sensual pleasures, be it the heart-stopping smile of chocolatier Juliette Binoche as she greets a new customer, an intoxicating cup of spiced hot cocoa, or the soothing guitar of an Irish gypsy played by Johnny Depp. Adapted by Robert Nelson Jacobs from Joanne Harris's popular novel and lovingly directed by Lasse Hallström, the film covers familiar territory and deals in broad metaphors that even a child could comprehend, so it's no surprise that some critics panned it with killjoy fervor. Their objections miss the point. Familiarity can be comforting and so can easy metaphors when placed in a fable that's as warmly inviting as this one.
Driven by fate, Vianne (Binoche) drifts into a tranquil French village with her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol, from Ponette) in the winter of 1959. Her newly opened chocolatier is a source of attraction and fear, since Vianne's ability to revive the villagers' passions threatens to disrupt their repressive traditions. The pious mayor (Alfred Molina) sees Vianne as the enemy, and his war against her peaks with the arrival of "river rats" led by Roux (Depp), whose attraction to Vianne is immediate and reciprocal. Splendid subplots involve a battered wife (Lena Olin), a village elder (Judi Dench), and her estranged daughter (Carrie-Anne Moss), and while the film's broader strokes may be regrettable (if not for Molina's rich performance, the mayor would be a caricature), its subtleties are often sublime. Chocolat reminds you of life's simple pleasures and invites you to enjoy them. --Jeff Shannon
A wanderer and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a straight-laced French Catholic village during Lent.
Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 21-MAY-2002
Media Type: DVD
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - wonderful movie - especially if you love chocolate
This movie is very good. The best part of the movie to me is when the minister says that we should think about what God is FOR rather than what He is AGAINST! Very profound. All of the scenes of chocolate making, stirring, serving, etc. are wonderful. The story is very good too. Well worth watching and savoring!
Rating:  - Perfect
There are a few movies I believe approach perfection: The Princess Bride, Errol Flynn's Robin Hood, Meet Joe Black, Young Frankenstein. If you're still reading, watch this movie. It has that 1940's look and pace, and the great classic acting earlier films often contained. It has a thoroughly modern sensibility, however, in the way the story is told and the depth you see in the characters. Reviewers often use the word "gentle" to describe this movie -- but the issues it deals with are nothing of the ... Read More
Rating: - Perfect Date Movie
This is a tale of what happens when the morality police get their judgments completely wrong. Still the movie makes it's point without clobbering viewers over the head. The movie, set in the mid-1900s, stars Depp as an kindhearted "pirate," and Binoche as a nomadic, chocolat making, single mother, (who is also step-mother to a "kangaroo.")
The juxtaposition between characters main and sub, old and young, religious or not, is interesting to follow each has their own unique story to tell. ... Read More
Rating: - Wonderful characters!
I love this film. Juliette Binoche is a joy as the town's newest resident, and her open ways are very foreign to some of her neighbors. Judi Dench is, as always, terrific. From a very personal perpective, Johnny Depp shows up too late in the film, but, as always, lives his role. This may not be a great film and some may feel it is hitting them too hard pointing out people's prejudices. But people do have them and it never hursts to remind us to look beyond the surface. Tjhe film does not treat dogmatic ... Read More
Rating: - Magic and chocolate
Maybe there isn't much difference - but Vianne's is more magical than most. She spends her life as a wanderer, bringing with her chocolate recipes that descend from the Mayas, but with preparation to tempt the most refined Europeans. The story starts when she and her daughter wander into a small city in France that dates back to the middle ages. It's a walled city, filled with walled people, the kind affronted by opening a chocolate shop during Lent and nastily eager to note the mother's never-married state. ... Read More
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