The picture has an ethereal ambience about it that many will find enchanting enough to forgive its shortcomings.
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12/20/00
Chocolat (2000)
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Reviews Counted:114
Fresh:71
Rotten:43
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Chocolat is a charmingly light-hearted fable with a lovely performance by Binoche.
Runtime: 2 hrs 2 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: It is the late 1950s, but it might as well be the late 1850s in a small French town where everyone behaves as they should (supposedly), and attends church regularly. When a strong North wind blows... [More]
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina
Director: Lasse Hallström
Reviews for Chocolat
The mix of great filmmaking and great food will put you in Hershey heaven -- or at least makes you wish you were there.
12/15/00
Top CriticA reasonably uplifting Christmas cookie.
12/15/00
Lasse Halström used to direct more interesting films than this.
12/15/00
It's not exactly cutting-edge filmmaking, but rather the soothing cinematic equivalent of a warm cup of decadently rich cocoa.
12/15/00
It somehow manages to let you down and leave you feeling pampered at the same time.
12/15/00
The picture feels awfully forced and stingy in its pleasures.
12/15/00
A work of artistry and craftsmanship at the highest level, sophisticated in its conception and execution, yet possessed of wide appeal.
12/15/00
Top CriticChocolat will go straight to your heart.
12/15/00
This latest fable from director Lasse Halström is culinary redemption ascribed to the gods.
12/15/00
So assured in its manipulative prowess that only afterward do you realize how fully you've been worked over.
12/14/00
Top CriticIt's too bad the filmmakers couldn't leave well enough alone and salute the power of self-indulgence without becoming so self-indulgent themselves.
12/14/00
It is so slight that, like chocolate, after it's gone you feel guilty about loving it as much as you do.
12/14/00
It's so easy to be mesmerized by Chocolat's brilliant indulgences that one abandons reason altogether.
12/14/00
A light, crowd-pleaser with above-average acting and a predictable ending.
12/14/00
Airy, pseudo-folkloric gibberish at best, Chocolat affects shrill agnosticism in the service of a disingenuous pro-tolerance rallying cry.
12/14/00
A charming confection of a comic fable graced by an abundance of delectable performances.
12/12/00
Top CriticA lovely, atmosphere-rich tale, a heartfelt, Capra-esque fable well suited to the coming holiday season.
12/11/00
Latest News for Chocolat
August 01, 2005:
Trailer Bulletin: An Unfinished Life
Finally earning a (limited) release after sitting on a Miramax shelf for about a year is Lasse Hallstrom's "An Unfinished Life," which stars Robert Redford, Morgan... More...
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