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	Chocolat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chocolat is a 1999 novel by Joanne Harris.
		Chocolat is the French spelling of "chocolate", and is properly pronounced [ʃokoˈla].
		The novel was adapted for film in 2000 directed by Lasse Hallstrom and starring Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina, Judi Dench and Johnny Depp
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chocolat (195 words)

	Chocolat (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chocolat is a 2000 movie based on the novel Chocolat by Joanne Harris.
		The movie was filmed in the village of Flavigny-sur-Ozerain in Burgundy, France.
		Driven by fate, Vianne drifts into a tranquil French village with her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol, from Ponette) in the winter of 1959.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chocolat_(film) (237 words)

	Political Film Society - Merci pour le Chocolat
		When the film begins, she is remarrying André Polonski (played by Jacques Dutrone), her first husband, a kindly retired pianist who immediately appears to be her lap dog; he has retreated from reality by focusing entirely on the world of music.
		Despite some untidiness at the end of the film (a cellphone call not made and a dazed Jeanne who might have stopped before too late), the film ends with tears pouring down Mika's cheeks when she learns that the two are not serious injured.
		The film is an intense character study of the sociopathic personality, someone who appears very charming on the outside yet cleverly lies to create false impressions, while plotting to make acquaintances emotionally dependent and eliminating anyone whose independence stands in the way.
	www.geocities.com /~polfilms/mercipour.html (830 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Interviews \| Claire Denis interviewed by Jonathan Romney
		So it was very frustrating, but I kept in touch with them as I was editing Chocolat, and they wrote me a letter and told me they were coming to France for a tour, their first tour outside of Cameroon.
		He did the first film of the collection, doing the portrait of Jean Renoir to whom he was an assistant and said "Claire was my assistant, so she should do the film about me." I did not propose it, I received the order to do it.
		Not in trying at all to make a scandal or to make a difficult film for the audience, but just to question ourselves what it is to be the brother, or the mother, or the neighbour of a monster.
	film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,338784,00.html (3121 words)

	Chocolat: A Ransom Movie Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The scenes in which Vianne stirs her chocolates on the stove are filmed with a delicious sensuality, and the feast given in Armande’s honor near the end of the film is warmly human and deeply inviting.
		The Christianity depicted in the film is sad, showing deeply devout believers who, fearful of those who do not share their convictions and values, react by becoming increasingly legalistic and withdrawn in an effort to preserve the purity of their faith.
		Chocolat is also a challenge to those of us who are committed to the gospel of Christ, that our faith would be winsome and joyfully welcoming, without compromise and full of grace.
	www.ransomfellowship.org /M_Chocolat.html (1075 words)

	Chocolat by Rachel Portman
		Chocolat is an Oscar-worthy score that comes on the heels of another highly praised soundtrack from Rachel Portman, The Legend of Bagger Vance.
		Chocolat, the score, like the movie, is a lighthearted in nature, but has at least one serious undertone.
		Both the levity and severity of the film are reflected in the film's score.
	www.tracksounds.com /reviews/chocolat.htm (633 words)

	Chocolat
		Chocolat is a semi-autobiographical film that functions as a political allegory examining gender, age and colonial relationships.
		Chocolat sensitively portrays a young woman's return to her native home in Africa which conjures memories of French colonial life on an outpost in Cameroon in 1957.
		The film's formal structure prioritises the role of memory, enabling the narrative to explore the problematic dyadic relationships of a past colonialism.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/cteq/01/17/chocolat.html (1419 words)

	Kinoeye \| French film: Claire Denis' Chocolat (1988)
		The rest of the film depicts a particular moment in her childhood that seems to best capture the interracial tensions and conflicts from that time.
		The majority of the film relies on the visual rather than the verbal to explain the stresses that exist between France's family, the servants and the family guests.
		Chocolat suggests that we structure desire not on the level of the verbal but instead in the field of the visible, which is where the characters' unspoken longings are played out.
	www.kinoeye.org /03/07/neroni07.php (2491 words)

	Postcolonial cinema: Chocolat
		The minimal exchanges between characters and their unspoken feelings of dependency, desire and intimacy is expressed throughout the film in the tableaux-like composition that dominates its style and the silent, observant and calculated regard of the camera.
		Chocolat is a reflection on past colonial relations perceived as moments of frustration and contradiction where sentiments of desire and betrayal are played out, rather than described in terms of blatant oppositions such as oppressor and victim.
		This sensibility imbues the film and is evident in its quite moving thematic and formal concentration on the minute, the complex and the fragile.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/00/1/chocolat.html (1335 words)

	Film Review: Chocolat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		That Chocolat is a fable is first signalled by the opening voiceover, "Once upon a time...", and then made obvious by Vianne and her daughter's entrance: into a town awash in cold blues, greys and the occasional green, they arrive swathed from head to toe in vibrant red.
		As a fable the film, for the most part, works, but its targets-the conservative policies of the Church and, in the person of the Count, the state-are such easy marks, that Vianne's eventual triumph seems foreordained, not to mention banal.
		Yes, the film is beautifully acted, and yes it "looks great" but Hallstrom's conservatism reminds me of a (rather uncharitable) review of Chocolat that a friend overseas reported reading: it's an art movie for people who don't like art movies...
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/c/chocolat_2000_r3.shtml (670 words)

	Long Pauses
		By dividing the frame in perfect halves, the shot's composition introduces what will become one of the film's central metaphors, the horizon line; by recontextualizing an idyllic image of a father and son (presumably) through what amounts to a cutless eyeline match, the pan firmly establishes the film's tricky but essential subjective perspective.
		Ten minutes into Chocolat, we leave the present to enter her reverie of the past, and all but the final few minutes of the film are a recreation of her childhood landscape.
		How was she to have known, until she came here, that the special consideration she had shown for his dignity as a man, while he was by definition a servant, would become his humiliation itself, the one thing that was to say between them that had any meaning.
	www.longpauses.com /blog/2005/03/chocolat-1988.html (1062 words)

	Chocolat (Film Tie-in) Book at Shop Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I have seen most of the film, and for once think the film might be better than the book.
		Chocolat is aimed at a general audience who just want a mildly entertaining fast read.
		"Chocolat" is entirely enjoyable, and a little less saccharine than the film that was made of it.
	www.shopireland.ie /books/reviews/0552998931 (708 words)

	Chocolat. A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		One of the insights I have found in revisiting the film is that, although the film is set in Lent, it is very applicable to the festival of Pentecost.
		The first parallel is that Chocolat is very international in its cast and crew: Director Lasse Hallstr?m, his wife Lena Olin and Peter Stormare from Sweden; Juliette Binoche and Leslie Caron from France, Alfred Molina and Judi Dench from Great Britain; Johnny Depp from the U.S.; Carrie-Anne Moss from Canada; Hugh O'Conor from Ireland.
		Chocolat is a simple as well as labirynthical kind of film.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /chocolat.htm (4188 words)

	BBC News \| FORUM \| Chocolat author Joanne Harris quizzed
		The problem of course is that the character of Reynaud in the film is not a priest.
		I was bitterly disappointed by the portrayal of France in the film, I felt it was cliched.
		I think the film is a film and obviously a film doesn't entirely reflect real life.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/forum/1238295.stm (1787 words)

	MovieMartyr.com - Chocolat
		I don't mind that the film condemns the church and the town's people so much as that it expects us to be happy when it betrays itself and decides these are good things.
		She is presented as a fellow outcast from the town, but she is obviously influenced by what her daughter (the mayor's loyal assistant) thinks of her.
		The film definitely wants to be subversive and conformist at the same time, and you simply can't.
	www.moviemartyr.com /2000/chocolat.htm (494 words)

	Merci pour le chocolat / Nightcap / Night Cap / 2000 / film review / Claude Chabrol
		Time and again in his films, the veneer of middleclass respectability is pared back to reveal something nasty, a beautiful but deadly flower growing in a well-kept garden.
		Although she is clearly a manipulative individual, her behaviour throughout most of the film appears to be motivated by good intent.
		The proof is that this film is one of his most atmospheric and suspense-laden, although it appears superficially much simpler than many of his earlier thrillers.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_Merci_pour_le_chocolat.html (1040 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Chocolat [2001]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Chocolat is an enchanting, moving and heart-warming tale of love and temptation, a big-budget movie with its roots in European art house cinema.
		From its majestic opening swoop to the final, joyous scene, Lasse Hallström's film, based on the bestselling novel, is nothing short of a masterpiece.
		Presumably, the replacement of the character of the fanatical and increasingly insane priest, by an autocratic and slightly conservative mayor, is the film-makers' attempt to keep on the right side of the Christian majority.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005LDBH (952 words)

	Chocolat film review
		The delicious Chocolat, based on Joanne Harris's novel, is again a gentle and charming tale of someone looking to belong, although this time Hallstrom's hero is a woman.
		Although the move is an obvious financial one, the result somehow compromises the film's authenticity.
		Chocolat is a tender film full of humour and depth, delivered with a deft touch and just the right amount of sweetener.
	www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/chocolat.html (681 words)

	Portsmouth Herald Movie Reviews: "Chocolat": Warm-hearted film is a treat for the senses
		A vibrant Earth goddess; a breath of fresh air in a stagnant town; a compassionate listener in a land closed-off from emotion; a pagan who's kindness is more Christian than her neighbors — Vianne is all these things as well as a symbol for hedonism, women's liberation, independence, anti-bigotry and the magical power of confections.
		"Chocolat" is a fairy tale, seasoned by the whims of a sly north wind that leads world-traveling Vianne and her daughter, Anouk, around the globe to a small French village.
		Although the title and location are French, the film is in English and it's not as imposingly art-house as it may first appear.
	www.seacoastonline.com /calendar/2001/2_11movie.htm (586 words)

	Chocolat / 1988 / film review / Claire Denis
		Her first film, it is probably her most personal, drawing on her own experiences and her intense love of the Dark Continent.
		The film can best be thought of as a leisurely, unhurried jeep ride through the African countryside, to a time when racial attitudes were very different to our own.
		The film does not go out of its way to shock us, but we are gently reminded how self-destructive any society based on racist divisions can become.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_Chocolat_1988_rev.html (327 words)

	Metaphilm - Chocolat
		Sure, it may well offend the sensibilities of both sides, but the heart of the film depends not a whit on how the religious people are portrayed or whether or not it affirms “traditional values.” That’s all just window dressing.
		I say “one way or the other” because this film, read in a religious context, really must be about either the incomparable beauty of definitive spiritual liberation or the implacable terror of eternal spiritual bondage.
		Where Chocolat is dogmatic (“If it feels good, do it, and then you’ll be free”), Feast is beautifully humble (“You will be free when you know what is good and you are able to do it”).
	metaphilm.com /philm.php?id=27_0_2_0 (938 words)

	Journal of Religion & Film: Chocolat Review by Carol Miles
		Chocolat is a bittersweet tale of temperance, or rather, a story of the struggle to achieve temperance when the Catholic Church meets a formidable advisory in a two thousand year old recipe for hot chocolate.
		Interestingly, the two icons that seem to give him the most comfort, and simultaneous torture, are the photographs of his wife and the crucifixes that he surrounds himself with.
		Chocolat is rife with religious themes and imagery, without being a religious film.
	avalon.unomaha.edu /jrf/chocolat.htm (827 words)

	Chocolat: triple j film reviews
		After all it is a fairytale film full of whimsy, romance and kind of predictable outcomes.
		Chocolat is filled with lingering shots on faces, the faces of performers who really know their craft (Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Lena Olin and Peter Stormare).
		Chocolat is surehanded and even in its direction, but it's the drama in its recipe which finally allows it to overcome what could have been a sickly saccharine disaster (see Woman On Top, an impulse ad masquerading as a feature film).
	www.abc.net.au /triplej/review/film/s253989.htm (753 words)

	African Films & Resources - Annotated Index
		Film Summary: Award-winning Hidden Faces (1990; 52 min.) is a fascinating collaborative documentary featuring Safaa Fathay, a young Egyptian woman living in Paris, who journeys home to make a film about famed feminist activist and writer Nawal El Saadawi.
		Film Summary: This critically-acclaimed film (1985) of Athol Fugard’s confessional drama depicts a white adolescent’s personal initiation in the abuses of racial power during a long afternoon of crisis and revelation.
		Film Summary: Director Souleymane Cisse’s acclaimed film (Mali, 1987), set during the era of the powerful Mali Empire of the 13th century, adapts one the great oral epics of the Bambara people of West Africa.
	web.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/hum211/afrfilms.htm (5276 words)

	Review: Chocolat (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This is the case with Chocolat (not to be confused with Claire Denis' haunting 1989 debut), a film that labors so desperately to offer a feel-good experience that it ends up being tedious instead.
		The events related during the course of the film transpire in a small French village during the winter of 1959.
		Chocolat is likely to find favor with viewers who appreciated the dubious aroma of Fina Torres' Woman On Top or the lighter-than-a-feather first half of Roberto Begnini's Life Is Beautiful.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/c/chocolat.html (976 words)

	CNN.com - Entertainment - Johnny Depp: Living unconventionally is magnifique - December 12, 2000
		CNN: One issue filmgoers may have with the film is the language.
		I went over there to do a film and ended up living there because I met my girl and we had a daughter.
		I think, more than anyone else in the film, that somehow it (occurred) to me that I was the one who was going to be eating the most chocolate.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/SHOWBIZ/Movies/12/12/chocolat (863 words)

	Filmtracks: Chocolat (Rachel Portman)
		Chocolat: (Rachel Portman) Teaming up with the same director and crew of The Cider House Rules, for which the film and score were nominated for Academy Awards, Rachel Portman is once again placed in the role of producing sensitive music for a romantic drama.
		Her score for Chocolat wraps up a strong year for Portman, who was propelled by the success of The Cider House Rules on to three more international album-caliber scores in 2000.
		While Chocolat received the nomination from the Golden Globes, the critical and popular success for Portman was The Legend of Bagger Vance, a score for a film that went bust almost before its release.
	filmtracks.com /titles/chocolat.html (1197 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Movie details - Chocolat
		Hallström's latest is a film that justifies festive excesses and praises the carefree joys of sensual abandonment.
		The film not so much justifies festive excesses (as the movie description indicates) but condemns society in general for judging (or should I say misjudging) people because of their different believes and how the fear of the "new" leads to bigotry.
		Chocolat, as refer in its title, is tasty, sensual, and at times bittersweet; it draws a parallel between chocolate and the pleasure in life.
	www.hour.ca /film/movie.aspx?iIDFilm=248&v=vo (489 words)

	Chocolat (2000): Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The film burbles with delightful dialogue and a sparkling sense of life.
		Chocolat is a seriocomic plea for tolerance, gift-wrapped in the baby blue colors of a fairy tale and served up with a sybaritic smile.
		While there are scenes of wrenching emotional openness and spontaneous charm -- largely due to the irresistible allure and impeccable craft of its ensemble cast -- the degree of calculation apparent in its plot and images undermines its efforts to move and seduce.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/chocolat (1038 words)

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