Chocolat
Starring:
Juliette Binoche, Alfred Molina, Johnny Depp, Lean Olin, Carrie-Anne Moss, Judi Dench, Sir John Wood, Peter Stormare, Hugh O'Conor, and Leslie Caron.
Directed By: Lasse Hallstrom
When Vianne (Juliette Binoche), a mysterious stranger, and her child arrive in a tranquil French Town in the winter of 1959, nobody could have imagined that she and her spirited daughter would have on this community stubbornly
rooted in tradition. Within days, Vianne opens a very unusual chocolate shop, filled with mouth-watering confections, across the square from the church. Her ability to perceive her customers' private desires and satisfy them with just the right confection, coaxes the villagers to succumb to temptation. The resident nobleman and self-appointed leader of the town are shocked that Vianne is tempting the local townpeople with her delicacies. Fearing it will ruin his town, he pits himself against her and forbids anyone from entering her shop, hoping to run her out of town forever. But when another outsider arrives, the handsome Roux (Johnny Depp), and joins forces with Vianne to liberate the town, a dramatic confrontation arises between those who prefer the ways of the past and those who revel in their newly discovered taste for pleasure. |
