This becomes pronounced when he chides a local boy for writing racist slurs on a wall in Les Merauds, and the boy's father protests that Reynaud grabbed his ear and made him scrub off the words. Being Good Sucks: After his Heel–Face Turn, Reynaud finds that his parishioners don't appreciate that he is stricter on them about tolerance.Bad Samaritan: Zozie in The Girl With No Shadow.Vianne and her birth mother are reunited in The Girl with No Shadow long after Jeanne's death, and while Vianne still loves her she eventually acknowledges that her abduction was a terrible sin. Baby Be Mine: In Chocolat, it's gradually revealed through reminiscences that Vianne's mother Jeanne stole her from a neighbour, reasoning to herself that she would take better care of the child.Armor-Piercing Question: This is what ends up stopping Zozie Anouk while struggling with her asks, "What was in the black pinata?" in Dia de Los Muertos.Armande agrees she isn't because, unlike Charley, she has a choice. Armande points out that Vianne told Guillaume that Charley would have preferred dignity as opposed to succumbing to pain, but Vianne retorts that Armande isn't a dog. When Vianne finds out that Armande is going blind in a year, and that Armande decides that she's going to die in the comfort of her home, Vianne starts to cry. Also not to be confused with Chocolate, a Thai film about an autistic girl who goes after her ailing mother's debtors to pay for her chemotherapy. Not to be confused with the 2016 French film Chocolat with Omar Sy, which is about one of the earliest successful black entertainers in France. Leslie Caron has a small role as Madame Audel. Based on a novel by Joanne Harris which apparently nobody reads, with all the Nightmare Fuel taken out.
Primarily remembered today as having been nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture, in what commentators then and now regard as the most egregious example of Miramax Films' notorious Oscar campaigns this resulted in a huge backlash that has dogged the film ever since. Whether or not Vianne can overcome her wanderlust is as big a question as whether severity or joy will finally win out over the town. She and Armande even contrive to unite them with the more liberal members of the town during Armande's 70th birthday celebration.Īlthough she changes everyone else's lives in the process, Vianne herself is changed by the people she meets in the town, specifically Roux - with whom she develops a romantic relationship - Josephine, and Armande. Vianne, recognizing fellow outcasts, is the only shop owner in the town not to "boycott immorality" and refuse them service. He spreads rumors about her atheism and liberal lifestyle, and even uses the local priest as a mouthpiece for his own ideas.Ĭonflict is further stirred up by the arrival of a group of Romani, led by the impetuous and handsome Roux ( Johnny Depp). The Comte fears that Vianne is a threat to his control on the town and behaves accordingly, warning all the townspeople of the dangerous and evil nature of her chocolate. Hidden passions left buried for years are brought to the surface with the help of the chocolate. She reunites young Luc Clairmont with his grandmother Armande ( Judi Dench), a passionate and sarcastic woman deemed a bad influence by Luc's conservative mother Caroline ( Carrie-Anne Moss). She convinces abused wife Josephine Muscat ( Lena Olin) to leave her drunk husband Serge ( Peter Stormare) and come work with her at the chocolaterie. Although at first, the townspeople give her a chilly reception, they slowly warm up to her as they are tempted by her fabulous concoctions. Using the secret recipes of her mother's people, Vianne opens a chocolaterie during Lent, earning the Comte's disapproval. The village is run by the Comte de Reynaud ( Alfred Molina), a man who has stricter moral standards than the local priest and holds everyone to them. In 1959, the now-grown Vianne ( Juliette Binoche) and her own daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol) are living this same lifestyle - though Anouk hopes to settle down someday - and as the film begins they move into the stuffy, traditional French Catholic village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes. He brought her to Europe, but she didn't stay with him, departing with their daughter Vianne to move from place to place with the "clever North wind." Once upon a time, a European pharmacist/explorer fell in love with and married a South American woman who was destined from birth to move as the wind blows, sharing her "ancient cacao remedies" with unhappy people. Chocolat is a 2000 British-American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Lasse Hallström and adapted from a novel by the same name by Joanne Harris.
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