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Last year, I reviewed the book CHOCOLAT by Joanne Harris. I’m blissful to characterize that this film adaptation is even better than the print version. And how often can one say that with a straight face?
The film begins with a north wind blowing Vianne (Juliette Binoche) and her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol) into a shrimp French village at the very beginning of Lent, that pre-Easter period of time, which, in the Catholic liturgy, is dedicated to prayer and physical self-denial. It’s not a suited time for Vianne, an apparent non-Christian, to commence up a chocolate shop across the town square from the church. But, she does so anyway, remarkable to the terror of the village mayor, the Comte de Reynaud (Alfred Molina) . Reynaud is puritanically obvious to shut the shop down, and Vianne is equally certain to hold it begin. An irresistible force meets an immovable object.
CHOCOLAT, both the book and movie, is a whimsical comedy that blossoms as Lent progresses, and Vianne’s shop becomes a position of healing and sanctuary for several of the town’s disturbed residents. Because Vianne’s store is seen (by the local Church establishment) as diametrically opposed to the spirit of the season, the anecdote can also be taken as a gentle myth of conflict between Christianity and paganism.
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Juliette Binoche is handsome in her role. (I judge I’m in worship.) Judi Dench is her usual top-notch best as Armande, an broken-down widow deprived of her grandson’s company by an over-protective mother, Armande’s beget daughter (Carrie-Anne Moss) . There’s also a shrimp role played by Leslie Caron. (Where’s she been in unusual years? ) And Alfred Molina is positively vivid as the uptight mayor, so dominant that he personally writes the Sunday sermons to be delivered by the local pastor, Fr. Henri, apparently only recently ordained and worthy in terror of the Comte. Johnny Depp has an curious role as one member of a band of despised river gypsies unbiased floating through.
One very obedient reason why CHOCOLAT the film is better than CHOCOLAT the book is the added dimension of visualization which the aged imparts to several elements of the storyline, specifically the mysterious wind that blew our heroine into town, Anouk’s pet Pantoufle, the toothsome chocolates themselves (seductively arrayed in the shop window), and the climax of the conflict between Vianne and the Comte.
CHOCOLAT the film is one that will have the audience leaving the theater feeling sterling, and maybe wishing for a cup of Vianne’s hot chocolate with a pinch of cayenne pepper. I can’t recommend this cinematic gem enough.
Lasse Hallstrom’s film version of the Joanne Harris’ unique Chocolat is as luscious a confection as were the heroines’ chocolate creations themselves. The spot is intricate and exciting, carrying the viewer through the emotional transformations of each of the main characters. In a sleepy medieval French town where life has assumed a repressive structure that has created an emotionally frozen and empty life for even the most highly placed members of its society, the heroine Vianne and her daughter reach to location up a chocolate shop. With her wonderfully concocted sweets she manages to liberate some of the denizens of the town, revealing their potential for greater happiness. The epic has a sense of chronicle, fantasy, and fairytale about it that leaves the viewer with a feeling of personal satisfaction.
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This is a film pudgy of strong female performers. Judi Dench is especially amazing as a curmudgeonly elderly woman estranged from her daughter and forbidden to glance her grandson. Juliette Binoche does a blooming job as the heroine. She is as fragile and seductive as Monroe in some scenes and as forceful and independent as Bacall in others. Lena Olin is astonishing as the abused wife who rises from the confusion and ashes of her gain ruined personality like a phoenix under the influence of the heroine.
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a ling while, and I quiz to order and read the book upon which it was based–something I rarely do.
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