Chocolat

Starring:Isaach De BankolÃ©, Giulia Boschi, FranÃ§ois Cluzet, Jean-Claude Adelin, Laurent Arnal, Jean Bediebe, Jean-Quentin ChÃ¢telain, Emmanuelle Chaulet, Kenneth Cranham, Jacques Denis, CÃ©cile Ducasse, Clementine Essono, Didier Flamand, Essindi Mindja, Donatus Ngala, Edwige Nto Ngon a Zock, Philemon Blake Ondoua, Mireille Perrier, Emmet Judson Williamson, HervÃ© Abah
Director: Claire Denis
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Product Type: DVD

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Starring: Juliette Binoche , Alfred Molina , Carrie-Anne Moss , Judi Dench , and Antonio Gil-Martinez
Director: Lasse Hallström
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Release Date: 2001-08-07

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With movies like Chocolat, it's always best to relax your intellectual faculties and absorb the abundant sensual pleasures, be it the heart-stopping smile of chocolatier Juliette Binoche as she greets a new customer, an intoxicating cup of spiced hot cocoa, or the soothing guitar of an Irish gypsy played by Johnny Depp. Adapted by Robert Nelson Jacobs from Joanne Harris's popular novel and lovingly directed by Lasse Hallström, the film covers familiar territory and deals in broad metaphors that even a child could comprehend, so it's no surprise that some critics panned it with killjoy fervor. Their objections miss the point. Familiarity can be comforting and so can easy metaphors when placed in a fable that's as warmly inviting as this one.

Driven by fate, Vianne (Binoche) drifts into a tranquil French village with her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol, from Ponette) in the winter of 1959. Her newly opened chocolatier is a source of attraction and fear, since Vianne's ability to revive the villagers' passions threatens to disrupt their repressive traditions. The pious mayor (Alfred Molina) sees Vianne as the enemy, and his war against her peaks with the arrival of "river rats" led by Roux (Depp), whose attraction to Vianne is immediate and reciprocal. Splendid subplots involve a battered wife (Lena Olin), a village elder (Judi Dench), and her estranged daughter (Carrie-Anne Moss), and while the film's broader strokes may be regrettable (if not for Molina's rich performance, the mayor would be a caricature), its subtleties are often sublime. Chocolat reminds you of life's simple pleasures and invites you to enjoy them. --Jeff Shannon

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Nominated for 5 Academy Awards(R) including Best Picture, Best Actress (Juliette Binoche -- THE ENGLISH PATIENT), and Best Supporting Actress (Judi Dench -- SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE), CHOCOLAT is the beautiful and captivating comedy from the acclaimed director of THE CIDER HOUSE RULES! Nobody could have imagined the impact that the striking Vianne (Binoche) would make when she arrived in a tranquil, old-fashioned French town. In her very unusual chocolate shop, Vianne begins to create mouth-watering confections that almost magically inspire the straitlaced villagers to abandon themselves to temptation and happiness! But it is not until another stranger, the handsome Roux (Johnny Depp -- SLEEPY HOLLOW), arrives in town that Vianne is finally able to recognize her own desires!

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I Love Chocolat!!.......2007-06-28

This movie is visually and mentally appealing I could almost taste the chocolate.

The message is as good as chocolate!

Tempted by the Bittersweet Treat.......2007-06-27

About a year ago my very Italian husband came home and announced that we were going to "as a family" now make chocolates in the shape of icosahedrons, tetrahedrons, dodecahedrons and octahedrons and MORE. This to be a part of his largely then mentally imagined company, Math Through the Ages. (Now it is very real and I will be launching many projects around it...and he has shown me I need to shut up sometimes.)
And what this candy would be, was a tasty treat aspect to the wares for families and kids. They would play and eat to better know and work with Math conceptually. In ways designed to develop math proofs with actual doing, something that is always actually our orientation in teaching in schools. " The platonic solids, Sarah", he said, "Are our answer."

(I might add this was somewhat better received on my part than when after my second baby he announced I should in my maternity leave run a 12 baby daycare because he "always wanted this".)

But I looked at him dumbfounded because he followed this with, "What do you know of chocolates and candy making". Well I knew this movie. And I can make something called a "Buckeye" which is peanut butter, powdered sugar and dipped in chocolate.

So it would seem that we had some point of connection as he was hoping for Juliette Binoche to step forward and begin a rich Latin chocolate cooking experience. I would say for a fantasy that's a fair one. Or for a kind of sensual pleasure this movie would awaken most men and women to the luxury of food, the pleasure of watching her on-screen and relating to Depp is lovely. But dressed in an old t shirt, too chubby, covered with Elmer's glue, glitter and ambivalent about how many minutes it would be before we argued over any process we started together I made the mistake of a guffaw. Men generally presenting their fantasy dreams do not appreciate this response. It's a cooling kind of thing. I have learned this. But...perhaps I could start by explaining my life might more closely resemble Green Acres.

I was very ill when I first watched this with peritonitis, again, and about a week from a month in the hospital some three or four years ago, actually doubled over the next day and in some rigid pain this day and I still found it a wonderful escape. Which is why Jack went out and got it. I'd just finished an angiogram in Anaheim(no it wasn't the heart, it was cancer) and right after that everything really went to hell. The storyline of the movie, I'll leave for others having recently been told about my spoiler nature. (Yes secrets are difficult for me sometimes) But I will say this story was beautifully filmed, set into a kind of place not unlike the Secrets of Roan Innish, a mystical realism.

I like magical tales and the weaving of this suited me when a magical escape was something I needed. If you are a woman or man that likes love stories I think you'll like this movie a great deal. If you have been on another planet you'll hear it here first. Shortly afterwards it was Dilaudid for me and then that might have heightened my recall of it as so very magical (or whatever they called the tripping pain med.)

So to be a bit more self-referential my husband would like, I think, to have our home be like this kitchen, filled with these wonderful treats that bring alive libido and sensual passions created by this magical maker. Me too.

I fumble around with cobblers and country fried steaks and the occasional pound cake. It is also true I am too plump for the fantasy. But I could play the diabetic sweet treat loving older lady, a sage dying so meaningfully especially in the party scene. One of the things that is so nice about this movie is Judy Dench and how her character serves to speak of a very powerful older woman, her complexities of feeling and her decisions regarding her health and her being in the living world, and her death, and how she choses to go. In a way this serves to ground you in living your life on your own terms and realizing you probably will in many ways mess up most of it. I would interject the movie suggests to live for love. The way her story is woven into the tapestry of the lives of the characters, the magic of these (filmed) days when life went upside over as a part of the construct of a home the candy maker builds in her wind blown life is fascinating. I'll spoil it to tell it and sound ridiculous not telling it.But Binoche serves as someone who forces other to deal with their heart. And is finally served the same by way of the vehicle of the chocolates and what they evoke from the characters.
The ins and outs of everyone's revelations spring out,their deeply held secrets revealed, their facing truths and it would seem their coming out of cowardice into the power of love, into a wind which blows it all upside down and right again. Too good. Oh, I wish it were so. I can think of this in relationship to several stories I do love. Their connection through the chocolates/shop/this powerful woman shaman is so cool. Facing their foolishly going wrong lives amazes me. The construct of her blowing into communities, making connections moving on, needing to find the home, to finally stay somewhere and the tension between moving on and admitting the need to have a place for love to matter hits you. Yes I'll stay in that village. Sure. I really like the plot line, can you tell?

It is a kind of story line that would appeal to my husband. And I'm almost afraid to think about that anymore right now.

No I am not wrapped up in the creation of chocolates yet though he has a mold maker and has brought in many chocolate molds.Really. I'm not capable of really playing this part, as said, and I can foresee how crazy an idea this is for us. Turning 48 Sunday and needing to just learn to make a good pie crust is enough. I don't think I could run a geodesic candy company. But I could taste a few of the treats. He came in with bulk chocolate recently from Trader Joe's and I made a note to myself to get him this on DVD for his "office" on his day. Or just hope for a sequel.

It is a lovely piece of art. Widely seen and enjoyed. Beautiful fantasy and insight into the mind's eye of my husband and insightful for me as I contemplate the realities of bittersweet chocolates.

Chocolat...DVD.......2007-06-27

Watched this years ago, after Juliet Binoche lost the Emmy to Julia Roberts . i had not heard of the movie til then. Now it had my curiosity.
The story line is so different, it is a combination of a little intrigue, a little eccentric town and a twist that will surprise you.
Johnny Depp appears in a small role, but is charming.Chocolat (Miramax Collector's Series)

bittersweet 'Chocolat' for me............2007-06-12

First, let me start this review by saying how much I adore chocolate (the food). I mean, there is a reason that women love this stuff. Personally, I would even be so bold as to say I prefer my chocolate dark and bittersweet (I can get more antioxidents from this, too--another incentive). Now, moving on to the movie. How would I describe CHOCOLAT if I were to compare it to a bar of the dark stuff? Well, I can't say it tastes authentic. My favorite type of chocolate isn't even European, or French, for that matter. It's Ecuadorian, with a cocoa count of [at least] 75%. CHOCOLAT wants to be this kind of chocolate. Instead, it ends being more of a blend of Hershey's milk chocolate (to please the American consumers) with the sensibility of a dash of French dark. In other words, not really smooth or memorable, but it wants to be!

I'll add in just a dash of synopsis, here, to get a sense of the recipe. For starters, director Lasse Hallstrom (or should I say "sous chef") paints the picture of a conservative little French town that Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche) swoops into, with her daughter, Anouk (Victoire Thivisol). This ultimately poses a great challenge to the Comte (Alfred Molina) and most everyone else. Why? Because Vianne has set up a Chocolaterie (chocolate shop) during Lent--an observance that the devoutly Catholic villagers strongly uphold. This is a time when they abstain from indulgences (especially foods like chocolate!). This also co-stars Johnny Depp.

Though, CHOCOLAT delivers in terms of visual beauty and spectacle, and the chocolates look divine, the storyline and most of the rest of this film leave a lot to be desired. Yes, a lot of you will think I am being harsh. Yet, while I sat there, watching this film (I won't even lie to you--I saw it twice), I couldn't help but feel that CHOCOLAT stole gimmicks from virtually every film genre focusing on mysticism, magical realism or food and claimed them as their own. The filmmakers desperately wanted to make the story something for everyone. We have a swashbuckling pirate (Johnny Depp), who is Irish, nonetheless. We have the mysterious stranger who sails into a town with her daughter, and no one knows her background. Is she a heretic? A witch with a cauldron of chocolatey sacreligious goodness--made to saturate and corrupt the palates of the unsuspecting villagers? We even have a subplot alluding to a battered wife (Lena Olin). Good lord! The gimmicks boggle the mind. Okay, dear readers. Thank you for sticking with me on this review. Those of you who were diligent enough to read it, I have a verdict for you. Skip this film and watch.....I am thinking LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE. Hey, it even has chocolate in the title, and you'll never look at wedding cake quite the same way again.

Chocolat.......2007-05-12

I saw Chocolat at the theater when it was new, now I've bought it for my collection. I love Chocolat every time I watch it!!

Miramax Inspired Romance Collection (Amelie/Like Water for Chocolate/Il Postino/Chocolat)

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Eclectic collection of "Inspired Romance"

Miramax Inspired Romance Collection (Amelie/Like Water for Chocolate/Il Postino/Chocolat)
Starring: Juliette Binoche , Alfred Molina , Carrie-Anne Moss , Judi Dench , and Antonio Gil-Martinez
Director: Lasse Hallström , Alfonso Arau , and Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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This four-movie collectible set includes widescreen versions of AMELIE, CHOCOLAT, IL POSTINO, and LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE. CLICK ON INDIVIDUAL TITLES BELOW FOR PRODUCT DETAILS.

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Hours of European Classics.......2006-11-10

This is a great set of films that will have you watching them over and over.

...The ULTIMATE collectors pack..........2006-02-18

Amelie and Chocolat..together...in a box set!!!!! well thats a must buy if ever there was one!!! Amelie is my fave movie of all time, it touched me, it moved me and its just like its main star...beautiful, scrumptious and likable!!! Amelie is a little french waitress...who after finding a chldhood treasure of a man who once lived in her apartment, she seeks out on being a regula dogooder, making couples fall in love, finding ways to make those who mourn, be comforted, punishing hose who are mean...all whilst neglecting her own love life...Chocolate, Johnny Depp, and Judie Dench in a film...sounds good to me. Chocolat is about a wman and her child who move into a religious and spirtiual community and who dont fit in with the social order of the town..but you must always have faith in yourself even if ppl dont have faith in u!!! IlPostiniooooooooo...so poetic and touching...wow...like water for chocolate is beautiful definitely for those who appreciate sweet romance...

Chocolat and Like Water....like its name...sweet and fluffy and sugar coated fun for the whole family
Amelie and IlPostino...smart and touching, poetic and stunning

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Amelie.......2004-05-18

An amazingly refreshing work of art. This creature is not only tintillating due to her own sneaky intentions, however she is quite jovial in her pursuits of happiness for herself and others. An amazing movie, please send more over to America!

Eclectic collection of "Inspired Romance".......2004-05-07

Romantic movies somehow seem a lot sweeter when they don't fit the usual boy-meets-girl mold. Four such movies make up the Miramax Inspired Romance Collection, four romantic movies that will make you want to cuddle up under a blanket (even the somewhat silly "Chocolat").

"Amelie" is the charming tale of a young French woman (Audrey Tautou), secluded and shy. But when she returns a childhood toy to a man, changing his lonely life, Amelie decides to keep doing good for others to improve their lives. But one of her deeds leads her to a handsome young man who may be her soulmate.... if Amelie can learn to help herself out too.

Sensuous, passionate "Like Water For Chocolate" introduces us to Tita (Lumi Cavazos) and Pedro (Marco Leonardi), young Mexican lovers who desperately want to get married. But Tita's domineering mother is determined to keep Tita single because of a mindless tradition. Pedro ends up marrying Tita's sister, and the heartbroken Tita is lost in her grief... only to have some very unpredictable things happen.

"Il Postino" is the way to love, when an exiled Chilean poet (Philippe Noiret) settles on a small Italian island. He befriends a poorly-educated young fisherman, Mario (Massimo Troisi), who is given the duty of delivering the newly-enlarged mail inflow. When Mario falls in love with the beautiful Beatrice, he needs the poet's help -- and the power of poetry -- to win her heart.

"Chocolat" celebrates joie de vivre, with big sides of chocolate (warning: Do not watch on an empty stomach). Vianne (Juliette Binoche) and her young daughter move into a small French town and set up a chocolate shop just at the start of Lent. What's more, Vianne strikes up a romance with a local drifter (Johnny Depp). The mayor is deeply ticked off by this, but as Vianne starts to improve their lives, the townspeople start warming up to her.

This collection is a pretty wide-ranging one. Some have the happy endings you'd expect, some turn out in ways you would never dream of. Okay, "Chocolat" is a bit silly even for magical realism; what keeps it from being absurd are the wonderful performances of Depp and Binoche. But these films have all kinds of romance -- the sparkling surrealism of "Amelie," the stomach-tingling heaps of chocolate, the sweet lyricism of poetry, and the sexy, sensuous "Like Water."

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"Erotic, sophisticated, and distinctive" (L.A. Weekly), this enthralling depiction of a family's struggle during the final years of French colonialism in Africa takes a profound look at the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society. A story of exclusions, betrayals and agonizing compromises, this "remarkable and quietly devastating" (The Boston Globe) film is truly "extraordinary" (Interview). Curious and observant seven-year-old France spends her days amidst the paradise of her family's estate. But behind the household's exterior beauty lies growing hostility brought on by France's always-traveling father, her bored, frustrated mother Â- and ProtÃ(c)e, the noble, intelligent house "boy" who suffers the indignities of his status in silence. But when a plane makes an emergency landing nearby, bringing a motley collection of characters to the house, the heavenly faÃ§ade soon begins to unravel. And a shocking explosion of rage, racism and forbidden passion threatens tear apart the family forever!

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[3.5]--Your mine wonders a lot when you're bored........2007-05-22

I have recently seen Claire Denis's film "Beau Travial" and thought to give her debut film, "Chocolat" a shot. I have to admit that I was about to give up on this film because it was horrendously slow but stuck it through because I understood her intentions of this film. Set in the Cameroons in West Africa in the 1950s this film is told from the perspective of an adult returning to her childhood home in a foreign country. France Dalens (Mireille Perrier), a young woman traveling through Cameroon, recalls her childhood when her father (Francois Cluzet) was a government official in the French Cameroons and she had a loving friendship with the brooding manservant, Protée (Isaach de Bankolé). The heart of the film, however, revolves around France's mother Aimée (Giulia Boschi) and her love/hate relationship with Protée that is seething with unspoken sexual tension.

The household is divided into public and private spaces. The white families rooms are private and off limits to all except Protée who works in the house while the servants are forced to eat and shower outdoors, exposing their naked bronze bodies to the white family's gazes. It becomes clear when her husband Marc (François Cluzet) goes away on business that Aimée and Protée are sexually attracted to each other but the rules of society prevent it from being openly acknowledged. In one telling sequence, she invites him into her bedroom to help her put on her dress and the two stare at each other's image in the mirror with a defiant longing in their eyes, knowing that any interaction is taboo.

"Chocolat" is loosely autobiographical, adapted from the childhood memories of the director, and is slowly paced and as mysterious as the brooding isolation of the land on which it is filmed. Denis makes her point about the effects of colonialism without preaching or romanticizing the characters. There are no victims or oppressors, no simplistic good guys. As you watch this you will see Protée as a servant but he is also a protector. It is a sad fact that Protée is treated as a boy and not as a man, but Bankolé imbues his character with such dignity and stature that it lessens the pain. Because of its pace, many viewers may have to work hard to fully appreciate the film and Denis does not, in Roger Ebert's phrase, "coach our emotions". The truth of "Chocolat" lies in the gestures and glances that touch the silent longing of our heart.

Insomnia Cure.......2006-10-11

I've ended up with this movie three times while trying to rent the Juliette Binoche/Johnny Depp movie by the same name. My wife and I tried to watch it twice and finally succeeded, but it was only with the help of the fast-forward button (which we used to speed through 80% of the thing).

I agree with others who've said that the cinematography is nice, but there is no plot, no character development, no continuity -- nothing to carry you from one occasionally pretty bit of scenery to the next.

If there was any tension to the film, anything that inspired your curiosity and made you keep viewing, it was the burning question of when something was actually going to happen.

It was not that it didn't have potential, either. The film was ripe for explorations of racial issues and of the inner landscape of the white girl who'd returned to the Africa of her youth, of all the things that could go along with returning home after a long time away even, but none of that happened. The film just blundered from one place to the next without saying or revealing anything.

Before I saw the 4- and 5-star reviews here, I suspected that the only way the movie managed to stay in stock at the local video store was because it kept getting confused with the other Chocolat movie. Maybe that's why it got the same name, so people would be forced to watch it?

If you want great cinematography and a story that will hold your attention, go for something like "Out From Africa".

If, however, you have been unable to sleep and need an insomnia cure, this is the one for you.

This one is uncontested in the #1 position on my "dud" list.

Chocolat: The delectable treat on the horizon.......2006-07-14

I have seen Chocolat about five times over the last seven years. Chocolat: A reference to skin-tone or the sweet delicacy which despite the oppressive African heat does not lose its form or melt? I find the flavor in the story of France Dalens' visit to her childhood Cameroon intimate and rich as enjoying and sharing a chocolate. The story overflows with subtext messages and countless subtleties about life and experience outside the safe confines of one's country and culture.

One could say, and rightfully so, the acting and distant camera shoots are poor. I am not persuaded this is not Denis's clever design to compel viewers to squint for a better view of the horizon, to see not only with their eyes, but with their minds, too. Denis has limited the instrusiveness of her actors and permitted the story to tell itself as viewers each relate to its many human tales of race, the subtle power of initiation, influence, dominance, sexual frustration, innocence and precociousness.

Director Claire Denis has blended an absolutely masterful movie; wonderful and warm, yet sometimes arresting, double-take wonderment: "What was that about?" Denis preserves the beauty in the mystery of the covert even as viewers' are accosted by the crassness of the overt. Chocolat is a movie about the irrepressible, undeniable wants and needs of the human spirit, and their attainment, even while the forces that would discourage, dishearten and destroy people rage about like hyenas in the night.

I can count (although I believe the number increases every time I see the movie) the abundant number of subtle suggestive messages which transpire between adult and child character relationships. Chocolate, in its pure form is bitter, _ and sweet once refined and blended with sugar, and unless the viewer catches these message glimpses Chocolat seems a blotch of disconnectedness of bits and pieces. That said, do not look for or wait for a plot to develop.

France's parents live out their lives as servants of their native land France to influence, form and fashion black colonial Cameroon according to white Europeans. Their daughter France lives her life under their sometimes oblique oblivion while she, unlike her frustrated mother, is taken in, participates and indulges the influences of the house boy, Protee, much like her native France would have the black natives of colonial Cameroon do, also. Watch for this switching influence message shoot: One moment the little girl sneaks away from her nap in the scorching noonday heat to watch Protee at his chores, next shoot is her father's entourage as he leaves his family back home to make his adminstrative rounds.

The central thesis of Chocolat is spelled out for viewers in the form of a bedtime muse for the daughter by her father when he ventures a brief intellectual dissertation on the illusiveness of the horizon for a sleepy child: The closer you get to it the further it moves away. One might get to where the line once was, but it has moved away so that the line is never crossed, _ or so, that is the illusion.

Denis does not pontificate race, politics or moral themes. She has left these to "come out" in the easy, crass, vulgar, ulgy speech from no less than a wayward seminarian. His sexually vulgar affront of Aimee in the presence of Protee and the other servants raises the question: Whose sexual desires are really at issue here? Denis allows us a wisp of a much more discreet exchange between like minds as we "walk in" on a little snicker between France's father and the seminarian.

Chocolat is my ignorant perception and celluloid indulgence in a wonderful, beautiful, lush, verdant Africa. The movie, with its airport scene at the close and the music, always make me a bit sad. I am surprised to feel that way every time. I feel I am leaving Africa. I also know I will return, again. I will see Chocolat my only experience of Africa, again.

I rate Chocolat, on a one to ten scale, a ten, not as having all those technical, artistic elements which make up a "perfect" film, but for taking to the nth degree what it brings to the screen for entertainment and amusement of movie viewers.

I love Chocolat.

Mixed Feelings.......2005-09-19

In reading the other reviews posted, I feel as though I missed something. Granted, the scenery is quite beautiful and the characters are interesting, but I failed to find any sort of plot. It took me over a week to watch the entire movie, as I would get bored and turn it off. I kept hoping that eventually the story would make sense, only to be disappointed.

One of a Kind.......2005-07-24

A one of a kind visionary film. What does it say? There are smaller statements about colonialism & white attitude. More to the heart of the film is when the houseboy lets the little girl burn her hand - a tremendously moving image of shared pain between two displaced people. What does it say? Maybe something about the oppressive structure of daily life - so distantly related to what is needed for the soul. Note the grownup little girl (Mireille Perrier) with the tumbleweed hair - for me, one of the most gorgeous women ever on the screen.

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Walerian Borowczyk's erotic masterpiece!
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Emanuelle the best of its kind
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Emmanuelle 5
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Walerian Borowczyk's erotic masterpiece!.......2006-06-17

Emmanuelle 5 is Polish surrealist Walerian Borowczyk's penultimate theatrical feature, a film who's merits are hotly debated among cult and artfilm lovers. Some see the movie as nothing more than a commercial sell-out, others as an interesting addition to his body of work. It's also the last quality entry of the official Emmanuelle franchise.
Adding to the confusion is the fact that there are at least three versions: the theatrical European version, the heavily edited US version (including new scenes produced by Roger Corman!), and a European home video version including extra hard-core scenes that feature none of the principal cast.

This time round Emmanuelle is portrayed by Monique Gabrielle, who is, in a jarring change, a bleach blonde American actress. Never mind that the character is supposed to be French, it kind of works, mainly because Ms. Gabrielle has the sense to play the role with just the right nod and wink. And while no actress came close to Sylvia Kristel's beauty, charm and class, Monique makes the role her own. Since the film dispenses with any previous character back story, here she portrays Emmanuelle as a single, free-spirited woman who makes erotic art-films and runs a dance studio out of her beloved loft in Paris.

The movie opens with a "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" style montage of Cannes, with a documentary-like narration giving us an overview of the famous film festival held there every year. It seems Emmanuelle is premiering her latest film, Love Express, in Cannes... causing a scandal in the process. In fact, we first see her in this film within a film, in a beautifully shot sequence on a set of craggy rocks overlooking the roaring ocean. At a press conference later, she must defend her film to close-minded reporters who accuse her of creating pornography. It's all obviously a reference to Borowczyk's own experiences at the very same festival.
After the Q&A, Emmanuelle's producer, a smarmy French type, introduces her to Prince Rajid, a wealthy sheik who own's the fictional Arab country of Benglagistan. He's apparently obsessed with Emmanuelle and wants to premiere the film in his homeland.

Outside, an adoring throng of male fans awaits Emmanuelle, all desperate for a touch of the famed beauty. Things quickly escalate and soon the mob is stripping her of every last article of clothing, sending her jumping onto a stranger's departing boat for safety. Her unwitting saviour is Charles D. Foster, a nerdy, but handsome young millionaire who disapproves of Emmanuelle's erotic films. Sparks fly, and before you know it, love is in the air. Is a happy ending in the works? Perhaps, but not before a journey back onto the Love Express and Prince Rajid kidnaps Emmanuelle, putting her in his harem.

The version most people know is the English language American edit (which in addition to the new Corman scenes also utilizes Borowczyk's outtakes), perhaps the reason Emmanuelle 5 is dismissed by some. The new scenes, while amusing, just don't gel with the traditional European style that people expect from Emmanuelle films. While the original release of Emmanuelle 5 certainly doesn't lack a sense of humor, Corman's New Horizon version goes over the top with campy 80s comedy, seeming more like a companion to Bachelor Party (also starring Ms. Gabrielle) and other films of that ilk. It's also clumsily edited - the transition between film quality is jarring. What they attempt is admirable (give the story more cohesion, tighten the pacing), but apparently they didn't even bother doing a final film print edit, it was all put together on 3/4 video with a series of bad fade-ins and bleeds. Apparently they opted for a quick home video release and couldn't be bothered to finish it off right. This version is also only available in a terrible full-screen DVD transfer.

If you can track down a copy of Borowczyk's original theatrical edit of Emmanuelle 5, do so. It's a smart, interesting film well worth owning, and has a lot more going for it than Monique Gabrielle's bare [...].

softest-soft-core if that's possible.......2004-02-12

the only thing that i liked about this film is the scene between the two women from the middle east behind the curtain that the Sheik ripped apart. a good 20-25 seconds of pure lesbian lust...before the camera pans back to the Sheik again! i have the tape at that spot at all times and i watch and re-watch it over and over...other than that i'm appalled at how mainstream the film tries to be. for me, part of the Emmanuelle success was showcasing a woman with a sexual appetite no matter who it was from: man or woman. yet, with the Emmanuelles that followed in Kristel's footsteps, somewhere along the way the series became nothing but a sophomoric, naughty movie one might expect to find late at night on the USA Network back in the early '90s with Gilbert Gotfreid with zero titilation and sexual overtones...but heavy on bikini clad bimbos. Laura Gemser has been the ONLY other woman to successfully play this role...and her films are MORE explicit than Kristel's. Emmanuelle 5 came along in 1987 as just another skin flick...showing hardly any skin except the scene i watch over and over. the mood for me is always interrupted by the so-called 'hero' of the film who's trying to break Emmanuelle out of the Sheik's harem! if it were me, i'd re-record the lesbian scene on a blank tape and throw Emmanuelle 5 out the window.

Those Were the Days..........2002-11-22

Hey, there. Remember those days of hormone-ridden adolescence when you snuck into the TV room in the middle of the night while the 'rents were asleep, and switched the cable box on to your fave premium channel in the hopes of seein' a few nudies and (hopefully) some other less-than-pure visuals? You probably had your special video tape ready to record those precious moments for future reference too, didn't ya? Boy, those were some fun times, weren't they? I know they were for me...

Emmanuelle 5 © was a particularly memorable naughty flick for me. The star, Monique Gabrielle, shows just about all she can-- in skin, that is, not acting ability-- as she cavorts through parts of mainland Europe and the Middle East in this little flesh-fest, and having her way with a few nerdy-yet-hunky guys (I've got the 'nerdy' part down, myself). Hey, you didn't think people watched this stuff for the Oscar-worthy performances, did'ja? Let's face it, the reason this baby was made is pretty plain: to grab the attention of the socially-inept heterosexual male demographic! Yep, it's all about the marketing, which I fell for just like that! I feel so dirty now...

Oh yeah, there's some silly excuse of a plot about a Middle Eastern Sheik who tries to make Emanuelle a prized addition to his harem, but that's neither here nor there...

''Late

Emanuelle the best of its kind.......2002-04-16

I can not say enough great things about this film. It's the best that I have ever seen in the movie theater or on VHS. Its got something for everyone, a great plot and believable characters. There is only one word of warning that I must say about this film, if you mind a bit of skin in your movies or are showing the film to your kids I would skip this one.

not enough sex- and I am a woman!.......2001-10-04

The Emanualle series is unique in that it is sensual and sexual. It reaches the ladies in the audience WITHOUT being offensive!

This one seemed far too concerned with the safe sex concerns of the actors. It was Emanuelle- almost- reimbraces- secondary viginity.

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Very good French thriller with a somewhat rushed ending..........2007-01-13

"Merci pour le chocolat", directed by Claude Chabrol, is an interesting French thriller with an abrupt ending, that is nonetheless worth your time. The reasons for that are many, including a superb cast, an engaging story, and a director that manages to make the spectator part of the story. You are not in the movie, but you feel involved in what is happening...

The story begins when Jeanne (Anna Mouglalis), a young and talented pianist, learns that she might be the lost daughter of André Polonski (Jacques Dutronc). Jeanne is intrigued by the idea, specially due to the fact that André is a very famous pianist, and she wants to learn from him. Jeanne visits André's house, meeting him, his new wife Mika (Isabelle Huppert), and a son from a previous marriage, Guillaume. Even though André is certain that Jeanne is not his daughter, he is interested in her, inviting the young woman to his home. That kind gesture sets off a chain of events that are dangerous, specially for Jeanne, and that could be linked to the death of André's previous wife, Lisbeth.

What is going to happen? And can appearances be utterly deceiving? "Merci pour le chocolat" makes you ask yourself those questions more than once. On the whole, I think that this is a very good movie, and I recommended it to those who love good thrillers and don't mind a somewhat rushed ending.

Belen Alcat

A short analysis of the film.......2006-02-23

**Be forewarned that this review is in part an analysis of the movie "Merci pour le chocolat" and therefore contains several spoilers. So if you haven't seen the film and don't want to know anything about the plot development, please don't read this review.**

Part of the problem with this very interesting movie is carelessness or deliberate ambiguity on the part of director Claude Chabrol. The celebrated French master of cinema really is a bit like Alfred Hitchcock in the way he put this film together. He doesn't care so much about the consistency of detail or logic, instead what he strives for, as did Hitchcock, is effect. Begin with a tantalizing premise, build tension, and then come up with a striking ending.

The premise, that of a psychologically disturbed woman of high social and economic status (Mika Muller, played with her usual haunting skill by Isabelle Huppert), whose bizarre nature forces her to poison those around her, satisfies the formula nicely. The tension is maintained by our need to find out exactly what she is doing and why and how it will affect the husband André (Jacques Dutronc), the son Guillaume (Rodolphe Pauly), and the young pianist, Jeanne Pollet (Anna Mouglalis). The ending which is heavily symbolic and deeply psychological however may disappoint some viewers. Note that as the closing credits run down the screen, Mika cries and then curls up catatonically on the couch next to a black Afghan in the shape of a spider web. She is the spider at the side of the web waiting for something to fall into it. She can't help herself. That is her nature. And that is why she cries for herself. And notice that her husband does not hate her or rage against her. Instead he seems to have pity upon her as he plays a funereal piece on the piano.

Personally what disappointed me--although I still think this is an excellent film--is the way the ambiguity about Jeanne's paternity is handled. Obviously we can tell by the photos on the wall of the tragically deceased Lisbeth that Jeanne is indeed her daughter since she looks exactly like her. In fact in the next scene Jeanne unconsciously apes the pose in the photo by putting the palms of her hands to either side of her face as André watches. Another problem with the film is that nobody except the audience seems struck by the exact similarity.

Additionally, the truth of her paternity is obscured by Jeanne's mother saying that the mixup at the maternity ward was straightened out to everyone's satisfaction, and besides (almost as an afterthought) she reveals that her husband was not the father, that instead she was inseminated by an unknown donor. This silliness could easily be resolved by DNA testing since the movie, which was released in 2000, is set in contemporary France. Chabrol uses a lab to establish what drug Mika is putting in the chocolate. Why not use a lab to establish paternity? Part of the reason may simply be that the novel upon which the movie is based "The Chocolate Cobweb" was written by the American mystery writer Charlotte Armstrong in the 1950's, before the age of DNA testing.

The real answer however is that Chabrol didn't bother, just as he didn't bother cleaning up some other ambiguities, like why the son does not confront Mika after he is told by Jeanne that Mika is drugging him. Or why Mika deliberately spills the drugged chocolate intended for Guillaume onto the floor, allowing her to be surreptitiously observed by Jeanne through a reflection in the glass of one of the photos. The spilling seems purely a plot device to allow Jeanne a reason to get the chocolat analyzed. Furthermore, we presume that Mika, who is very rich, remarries André because she loves him or admires him or wants to be with him. And it can be seen that he would want to remarry her because of her wealth, her beauty, her elegance, etc. However, it is revealed near the end of the film that he had all along suspected her of causing Lisbeth's death since he says something like "You also washed the glasses the night Lisbeth died." He knew.

One can even go to the extent of analyzing this by saying that Mika is the black widow and André finds her irresistible. Note the scene in which he suggests they make love to have a daughter and she puts him off by saying that he would be ineffective since he has already taken his Rohypnol. She says, next time before he takes his sleep potion they will do it. Furthermore notice that EVERY night he falls into a drugged sleep since he is addicted to Rohypnol. Perhaps this nightly occurrence is pleasant to Mika, in a sense an acting out of the black widow's mating ritual again and again.

Nonetheless, this idea of a woman helpless against her own nature seems a bit unsatisfying. We want something more. And what she does to satisfy her urges leaves us a bit mystified. It seems hardly enough. She drugs the chocolate that she lovingly makes for Guillaume and Jeanne. Why only this? Why this at all? The logic is that she needs to excrete her poison, like a spider. The very act of doing it is what satisfies her need. The fact that somebody could take the drug and then fall asleep at the wheel of a car really is beside the point.

This tale of the dark psychology within the human soul is the sort of thing that attracts Isabelle Huppert as an actress. She has played in her distinguished career a number of roles that require evil in the human soul. This is one of the more subtle ones. For one of the more striking, see her in The Piano Teacher (2001).

A little spilled chocolate goes a long way........2006-02-14

So far, I've seen maybe 7 Chabrol films (older and recent ones) and this is easily the most enjoyable one yet. Actually, I wasn't expecting much, after some mixed reviews here, but found the DVD for a decent price used at a local store, and gave it a shot. While I think Chabrol films are all well above average, and in terms of Amazon ratings, you can always bank on a 4 star rating, but this one had a little more. I really enjoyed watching these characters, and this little plot they've become nestled into is very intriguing. I think it helps that all the actors, especially Huppert, play their parts to a tee.

Stunningly beautiful, but unknown to the US actress, Anna Mouglalis, serves as the centerpiece of the film, which revolves around the question of whether or not she was switched at birth with the Polonski's baby boy, who was born on the same day. Pianist Andre Polonski is initially told by nurses that he has a girl, only to find out they made a mistake and he has a son. Mouglalis's character, Jeanne, who also becomes a pianist, goes to meet the father that may have been hers, and sets off a jealousy issue with Andre's new wife, Mika, played by Huppert. This triggers emotions from the past, and poses a question about the death of Andre's first wife. It also sets up one of the best scenes in the film: a moving recollection by Andre's son, Guillame, about the night his mother died.

Upon Jeanne's first encounter with Mika, some suspense immediately builds, in a very stylish scene where Jeanne is looking at a picture of Andre's first wife, a near reflection of herself as she resembles her, and sees Mika purposely spill a thermos of chocolate on the floor. This gets Jeanne to purposely dip her sleeve into it and later have her forensic lab boyfriend analyze it and find that it contains a tranquilizer.

The direction of the film, building suspense, dry wit, and superb acting performances, all make for an extremely satisfying French film. It is much more lighter than other Chabrol films, and more dialogue driven, without much culmination in the suspense. The violence found in his other films is nowhere to be found. It's more on the black comedy side, then a true suspense thriller, and nothing points to this more than the subtle humor found in the ending. From the low key remarks by Andre (remember that he's just had some sleeping medicine as well), to what happens to Jeanne and Andre's son, to the revealing scene where Huppert gets up from the couch, only to find she was just resting her head in the center of a black afghan, knitted in the form of spider web.

I don't think the film is to be taken as seriously as other Chabrol thrillers, and thus, the somewhat abrupt ending shouldn't be frowned upon for coming up short. I thought it was satisfying enough, and ends the film quite nicely. Let's face it, French films don't EVER end like Amercian films do. I think it's a unique and tidy end to one delicious film! My only gripe was not how it ended, rather when it ended. I would have loved to see more interaction between the characters before it reached it's conclusion. I'll just have to watch it again!

Movie: Very Good. Huppert: Great........2004-10-23

Mika Muller, wealthy owner of a Swiss chocolate company (and played by Isabelle Huppert) has just married Andre Polonski (Jacques Dutronc). They were married briefly years before, but divorced and Polonsky married a woman he deeply loved and by whom he has a teen-age son. His second wife died in a car crash after enjoying a cup of hot chocolate with her husband and son at Mika's house. The movie proceeds with tensions, family complications and death -- with Mika calmly continuing the tradition each evening of making and serving her delicious cups of chocolate.

There's little mystery about what's going on, but the story drives with the question, "Why?" Why does Mika do what she does...and just what are all the things she's done? There's tension as it becomes clearer who should really be cautious about accepting Mika's hospitality. The pay-off is low key and, for me, just a little unsatisfying. It's still a movie I enjoy a lot.

The movie works because of Huppert's ability to seem imperturbable while you know deep and probably unpleasant things are bubbling away below the surface. Let me tell you...for those fans of Lindsay and Brittany and Angelina, Isabelle Huppert now 51 could chew you up and spit you out before you knew what was happpening. She's a first-rate actress and a great screen presence.

Wonderful, brilliant Huppert.......2004-02-19

I first encountered Isabelle Huppert in LE PIANISTE, and was excitedly anticipating this film. Her ability to communicate repressed rage and a rigid adherence to social convention is awe-inspiring. She never turns the facade into a cliche, even in this unsympathetic role. She is just as wonderful in this film as in THE PIANO TEACHER, although her characters are quite different.

This one, Mika, is not as fully developed and explored. Director Charbol merely gives you a taste of the morbid, paranoid, obsessive and ultimately violent character. Huppert delicately conceals the true Mika behind the practiced visage of the wealthy and socially-connected corporate executive. No overt smugness or irony reveals to you the true depth of her anti-social sentiment, self-loathing, and hatred.

The film notes only glibly discusses the character (as aflicted by "perversion"), and I think the film itself only approaches her, never exploring or embracing her. There is something more complex at work than the corruption or debasement perversion implies. The full-blown personality disorder on display gives us a glimpse of the "non-persons" lacking the ego, or sense of personhood, that makes their 'normal' (often perfectionist) behavior calculated mimicry. We catch only a glimpse of that her, I believe.

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I LOVE THIS MOVIE!!!!!!!.......2006-07-20

I guess this is a "chic flick" and I don't generally care for them but this has to be one of my all time favorite movies! I could so relate to Vianne, and to Roux as well. I liked it so much I bought the soundtrack too! If you like lightweight entertainment now and then, this is it!!!

How long do Catholic children live?.......2006-05-27

Hello All, this is a response to Jerome Quigley (see his review below).

I would first like to say that this was a wonderful film.

My beef with the comment below is that Jerome said he would not recommend this film to children under 2000... Surely children do not live that long?!?!!!?

Dr. K

P.S Juliete Binoche rocked in this film!

"Babette's Feast" with 'Like Water for Chocolate" feel.......2006-05-22

This is a unique movie with features and messages portrayed in "Babette's Feast (1988)" and "Like Water for Chocolate (1993)".

The story has been told many ways. Yet this movie is still unique in its presentation. We get to visit with our favorite actors and they do such a good job that they do not overwhelm the characters. I especially liked Alfred Molina who played a similar role in "Enchanted April (1992)" as someone that really was not a bad person; he was just misunderstood or has a misunderstanding and comes around later to be really a good guy.

Like "Babette's Feast", everyone is supposed to shun Vianne Rocher who goes out of her way to help people. And like "Like Water for Chocolate" the movie has a mystical feel.

Basic story is a town where everyone knows their place and duty is visited by a north wind caring a mysterious woman and her daughter. Their present's wakes up the people from their organized existence.

The DVD has all the DVD goodies that you are looking for, such as voice over, deleted scenes etc. And they do not force the coming attractions on you.

A PLEASANT CONFECTION..........2006-05-16

This is a pleasant, though obvious, adult fable, broadly hinting at the often sensual, restorative, and mystical properties of chocolate. A beautiful and mysterious woman, Vianne, delightfully played by the winsome Juliette Binoche, along with her daughter, Anouk, arrive in a remote and very provincial French town, where she rents a patisserie from an elderly, crotchety woman, magnificently played by Judi Dench, and turns it into a chocolatier. From here, she concocts visually dazzling, mouthwatering amounts of chocolates, along with copious cups of hot cocoa made from a very special recipe, that are always sold or given by Vianne with a Julia Roberts style, mega watt smile.

Vianne is kind, compassionate, and tolerant. She is, therefore, a person to be feared by those who lack those traits. That is why she is greeted with bare civility by the town's mayor, wonderfully played by the always underrated, very talented Alfred Molina. He is a sanctimonious, intolerant, unhappy, religious prig, who insists on writing the sermons for the town's young, beleagured priest. Offended by Vianne's easy charm and her resistance to his invitation to attend church services, the mayor, whose hardened exterior hides a profound sorrow, declares war on Vianne, as he perceives her to be a threat to his established order of things.

Meanwhile, Vianne finally warms up and disarms her crotchety landlady, jumpstarts a tired marriage for two villagers, and befriends a battered woman, played with appropriate pathos, delicacy, and spirit by Lena Olin. She also manages a flirtation with an Irish drifter named Roux, well played by Johnny Depp, though they seem to lack chemistry together. She gains the confidence of those willing to become friendly with her through the mystical properties of her chocolates and hot cocoa, changing their lives forever. Though the mayor has vowed to drive Vianne's business into the ground and run her out of town, Vianne hangs on, determined to stay until the North winds blow her and her daughter to yet another unhappy town. What happens in this town, however, ultimately changes the lives of its mayor, the villagers, and even Vianne, forever.

This is a lovely, well acted, and moderately entertaining film, that thematically deals with the mystical, sensual, and palliative properties of chocolate. It is a frothy, pleasant confection. If you want a film, dealing with a similar theme, that will fully satisfy an appetite, however, one need look no further than the superb film, "Like Water for Chocolate".

Wonderful Movie.......2006-03-30

I loved every minute of this! The story was intriguing, the scenes were beautiful and the acting was superb. I actually felt like I was in the movie, which made it that much more special. I could watch this movie every day!

Charlie Rose with Ron Howard; Juliette Binoche (December 26, 2000)

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Charlie Rose with Ron Howard; Juliette Binoche (December 26, 2000)

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Director Ron Howard discusses his latest project The Grinch, the film version of the classic Dr. Seuss tale, starring Jim Carrey and en route to being the highest-grossing movie of the year. Then, a conversation with French actress Juliette Binoche on her new film Chocolat and her lead role in Harold Pinter's play Betrayal on Broadway.

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A PLEASANT CONFECTION...

Chocolat [Region 2]
Starring: Juliette Binoche , Alfred Molina , Carrie-Anne Moss , Judi Dench , and Antonio Gil-Martinez
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A PLEASANT CONFECTION..........2006-12-12

This is a pleasant, though obvious, adult fable, broadly hinting at the often sensual, restorative, and mystical properties of chocolate. A beautiful and mysterious woman, Vianne, delightfully played by the winsome Juliette Binoche, along with her daughter, Anouk, arrive in a remote and very provincial French town, where she rents a patisserie from an elderly, crotchety woman, magnificently played by Judi Dench, and turns it into a chocolatier. From here, she concocts visually dazzling, mouthwatering amounts of chocolates, along with copious cups of hot cocoa made from a very special recipe, that are always sold or given by Vianne with a Julia Roberts style, mega watt smile. Vianne is always kind, compassionate, and tolerant. She is, therefore, a person to be feared by those who lack those traits. That is why she is greeted with bare civility by the town's mayor, wonderfully played by the always underrated, very talented Alfred Molina. He is a sanctimonious, intolerant, unhappy, religious prig, who insists on writing the sermons for the town's young, beleagured priest. Offended by Vianne's easy charm and her resistance to his invitation to attend church services, the mayor, whose hardened exterior hides a profound sorrow, declares war on Vianne, as he perceives her to be a threat to his established order of things.

Meanwhile, Vianne finally warms up and disarms her crotchety landlady, jumpstarts a tired marriage for two villagers, and befriends a battered woman, played with appropriate pathos, delicacy, and spirit by Lena Olin. She also manages a flirtation with an Irish drifter named Roux, well played by Johnny Depp, though they seem to lack chemistry together. She gains the confidence of those willing to become friendly with her through the mystical properties of her chocolates and hot cocoa, changing their lives forever. Though the mayor has vowed to drive Vianne's business into the ground and run her out of town, Vianne hangs on, determined to stay until the North winds blow her and her daughter to yet another unhappy town. What happens in this town, however, ultimately changes the lives of its mayor, the villagers, and even Vianne, forever.

This is a lovely, well acted, and moderately entertaining film that thematically deals with the mystical, sensual, and palliative properties of chocolate. It is a frothy, pleasant confection. If you want a film, dealing with a similar theme, that will fully satisfy an appetite, however, one need look no further than the superb film, "Like Water for Chocolate".

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Very good French thriller with a somewhat rushed ending...
A short analysis of the film
A little spilled chocolate goes a long way.
Movie: Very Good. Huppert: Great.
Wonderful, brilliant Huppert

Merci pour le chocolat [Region 2]
Starring: Isabelle Huppert , Jacques Dutronc , Anna Mouglalis , Rodolphe Pauly , and Brigitte Catillon
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Very good French thriller with a somewhat rushed ending..........2007-01-13

A short analysis of the film.......2006-02-23

A little spilled chocolate goes a long way........2006-02-14

Movie: Very Good. Huppert: Great........2004-10-23

Wonderful, brilliant Huppert.......2004-02-19