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Chocolat is a British film of genre Drama directed by Lasse Hallström released in USA on 19 january 2001 with Juliette Binoche

Chocolat (2000)

Chocolat
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Released in USA 19 january 2001
Length 2h1
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Romantic comedy,    Romance
Rating72% 3.647413.647413.647413.647413.64741

Chocolat ([ʃɔkɔla]) is a 2000 American-British romantic drama film based on the novel of the same name by Joanne Harris, and was directed by Lasse Hallström. Adapted by screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs, Chocolat tells the story of a young mother, played by Juliette Binoche, who arrives at the fictional, repressed French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes with her six-year-old daughter and opens La Chocolaterie Maya, a small chocolaterie. Her chocolate quickly begins to change the lives of the townspeople.

Filming took place between May and August 2000. The film was shot in the village of Flavigny-sur-Ozerain in Burgundy, France, and on the Rue De L'ancienne Poste in Beynac-et-Cazenac on the Dordogne River in Dordogne, France. The river scenes were filmed at Fonthill Lake at Fonthill Bishop in Wiltshire, England and interior scenes at Shepperton Studios, Surrey, England.

The film was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It was also nominated for eight BAFTAs, and four Golden Globes. Judi Dench won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance in the film.

Synopsis

Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche), an expert chocolatier, drifts across Europe with her daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol), following the north wind. In the beginning of the Lenten season in 1959, "fifteen years after the War," they travel to a quiet French village that closely adheres to tradition, as led by the village mayor, the Comte de Reynaud (Alfred Molina). Just as the villagers begin observing the forty days of Lent, Vianne opens a chocolate shop, much to Reynaud's displeasure.

Actors

Juliette Binoche

(Vianne Rocher)
Judi Dench

(Armande Voizin)
Alfred Molina

(Count Paul de Reynaud)
Carrie-Anne Moss

(Caroline Clairmont)
Lena Olin

(Josephine Muscat)
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