![]() This village was very religious, very traditionalist. (Now doesn’t that sound familiar?)Īnd for anyone, like me, who delights in France, there are many scenes from a typical French village where all of life turns around the Church and the noble in his elegant manor. A good supporting cast awaiting Vianne’s “liberation chocology,” which includes an appealing timid young boy, gifted with a talent for drawing but warped by the prejudices and inhibitions of his conservative mother.The Villain, the elegant but stiff-laced traditional Count (Alfred Molina), who is the real lord of a little French village.The Heroine Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche), the beautiful and unpretentiously elegant proprietress of the chocolate shop, and her charming daughter Anouk, with her fantastical kangaroo.First, there are tantalizing scenes of rich chocolate-in-the-making and enticing finished products, which, unfortunately, even with all the technological advances in modern movie theaters, one still cannot taste. The heroine Vianne Rocher, serves a very bitter chocolate for Catholics. Not a new technique, but always effective. And all very subtly done to make the good appear to be the evil, and the evil to be the good. And it promotes everything we’re fighting: feminism, new age magic, uncontrolled spontaneity, limitless freedom, diversity, tolerance, inclusiveness, you name it. It’s an attack on everything traditionalists stand for, she said, the Ten Commandments, Catholic traditions, hierarchy, family, conventions, you name it. The characters are amusing and engaging, the plot at times banal and boring, but, all in all, many reviews are calling it a welcome bit of good harmless fun for the family.Ī good friend asked me to go with her to see the film and then write a review. Horvat, Ph.D.Ī new PG-13 movie with the enticing name of Chocolat is receiving good press as a “delightful fable” screened on site in France in the charming fictional French village of Lansquenet.
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