Chocolat [videorecording] / Miramax Films presents a David Brown production ; produced by David Brown, Kit Golden, Leslie Holleran ; screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs ; directed by Lasse Hallström.
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FilmPublisher number: 021682 | Miramax Home EntertainmentLanguage: English, French Original language: English, English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Series: Miramax award-winning collectionPublication details: [Burbank, CA] : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2001].Description: 1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0788827006
- 9780788827006
- Chocolat (Motion picture : 2000).
- Director of photography, Roger Pratt ; editor, Andrew Mondshein ; music, Rachel Portman ; production designer, David Gropman ; costume designer, Renée Ehrlich Kalfus.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The most tempting of all sweets becomes the key weapon in a battle of sensual pleasure versus disciplined self-denial in this comedy. In 1959, a mysterious woman named Vianne (Juliette Binoche) moves with her young daughter into a small French village, where much of the community's activities are dominated by the local Catholic church. A few days after settling into town, Vianne opens up a confectionery shop across the street from the house of worship -- shortly after the beginning of Lent. While the townspeople are supposed to be abstaining from worldly pleasures, Vianne tempts them with unusual and delicious chocolate creations, using her expert touch to create just the right candy to break down each customer's resistance. With every passing day, more and more of Vianne's neighbors are succumbing to her sinfully delicious treats, but the Comte de Reynaud (Alfred Molina), the town's mayor, is not the least bit amused; he is eager to see Vianne run out of town before she leads the town into a deeper level of temptation. Vianne, however, is not to be swayed, and with the help of another new arrival in town, a handsome Irish Gypsy named Roux (Johnny Depp), she plans a "Grand Festival of Chocolate," to be held on Easter Sunday. Based on the novel by Joanne Harris, Chocolat features a distinguished supporting cast, including Judi Dench, Lena Olin, Carrie-Anne Moss, Peter Stormare, Hugh O'Conor, and Leslie Caron. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Based on the novel by Joanne Harris.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000.
Special features: The making of "Chocolat" [featurette] (29 min.); Audio commentary with director Lasse Hallström and producers David Brown, Kit Golden and Leslie Holleran [optional audio feature]; "Chocolat" costume design [featurette] (4 min.); "Chocolat" production design [featurette] (8 min.); Deleted scenes (6 min.); Previews (8 min.).
Opening credits/A tranquil village and the north wind -- "Where are you from?" -- To lead by example -- Radical atheist -- Waking the passion -- Fasting and favorites -- "One's enemy" -- "People talk" -- Hidden thoughts and yearnings -- Chocolate crusade -- Guaranteed problem -- "Boycott immorality" -- Chocolate, worms, and sin -- Planning a party -- Exquisite indulgences -- Riverboat disaster -- Saying goodbye -- Banishment from the village -- "Don't worry, Mama" -- Comte and his confections -- Freedom from Tranquility -- End credits.
Director of photography, Roger Pratt ; editor, Andrew Mondshein ; music, Rachel Portman ; production designer, David Gropman ; costume designer, Renée Ehrlich Kalfus.
Juliette Binoche (Vianne Rocher), Judi Dench (Armande Voizin), Alfred Molina (Comte Paul de Reynaud), Lena Olin (Josephine Muscat), Johnny Depp (Roux), Carrie-Anne Moss (Caroline Clairmont), Hugh O'Conor (Pere Henri), John Wood (Guillaume Blerot), Peter Stormare (Serge Muscat), Victoire Thivisol (Anouk Rocher), Aurèlien Parent Koenig (Luc Clairmont), Ron Cook (Alphonse Marceau), Elisabeth Commelin (Yvette Marceau), and Leslie Caron (Madame Audel).
Once upon a time, there was a quiet little village in the French countryside, whose people believed in Tranquilité - Tranquility. If you lived in this village, you understood what was expected of you. You knew your place in the scheme of things. And if you happened to forget, someone would help remind you. In this village, if you saw something you weren't supposed to see, you learned to look the other way. If perchance your hopes had been disappointed, you learned never to ask for more. So through good times and bad, famine and feast, the villagers held fast to their traditions. Until, one winter day, a sly wind blew in from the North...
MPAA rating: PG-13.
DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound; widescreen presentation, aspect ratio 1.85:1; enhanced for 16x9 televisions.
In English or French with optional subtitles in English for the hearing impaired or Spanish.