Chocolat

A lovely film that will make you as feel good as eating a chocolate treat. Binochet is sweet (from a male perspective), Depp is sweet (from a female perspective), the story rather bitter, but the milky part is waiting at the end. The problem with the film's chocolate is that its flavour wasn't distinctive enough to make me want to revisit it after a while. Which is something that can't happen to me with normal chocolate :) Therefore "only" for four rum truffles. (12/25/2003)

Chocolate is such a small big European America. The author of the original has French-British roots, Swedish director Hallström repeats his favorite actors (Johnny Depp, his own wife - Bergman's Lena Olin) and will soon also include Judy Dench among his favorites. Everyone is enchanted by Juliette Binoche, but I enjoyed Carrie-Anne Moss much more. The atmosphere of the film foreshadows Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, even though it takes place in the French countryside 15 years after the war... Anyway, I find it fascinating that Joanne Harris gradually wrote two more novels about Vianne Rocher. (03/30/2023)

A cool movie. I've heard that if you watch it, you'll end up “cleaning out" the nearest Belgian chocolate shop. Well, that didn't happen for me. I'm not in the mood for it. But I guess that's not the point of the movie. I'm a bit sorry that Johnny had such a bark, good as ever, but you didn't see him wag his tail much. I really liked the music on the boat, that's when the film gave me the passion – not for chocolate (as promised) but for dancing. Also good. I liked how the film took on more color as it went on, and how everyone had this lovely wispy accent and said bonjour. Plus a beautiful town full of cat heads... A bit of a weak 4 stars, but still a 4. (07/12/2009)

Definitely not a movie to give out free with the purchase of a 3-pack of candy bars... which is how it ended up in my hands. So I put it on, thinking it was a cheap movie. It somewhat surprised me, but really only somewhat. Maybe I'm just biased, which is why I'm going to watch it again. For now, 3.5 stars. (02/11/2011)

At the end, a smile, a craving for something sweet, and good mood will remain. The most interesting flavor is the surprising way of shooting at arrogant bigwigs, the most delicious beautiful Juliette and the sharpest yet good one is the fabulous Johnny Depp. Don't refuse this delicacy, the craving for it tends to return. (07/16/2007)