A mystery set in the environs of Lausanne concerning several plots which wind their way through the elegant homesteads of a couple of well-heeled French-Swiss denizens. Mika is the couture-attired, oh-so-perfect head of Muller Chocolates--a company that manufactures Swiss chocolates. Andre is her suave, concert pianist husband .. Read more
| Starring | Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Michel Robin, Brigitte Catillon |
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| Director | Claude Chabrol |
| Genres | Thriller, World Cinema |
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A mystery set in the environs of Lausanne concerning several plots which wind their way through the elegant homesteads of a couple of well-heeled French-Swiss denizens. Mika is the couture-attired, oh-so-perfect head of Muller Chocolates--a company that manufactures Swiss chocolates. Andre is her suave, concert pianist husband whose first wife died years ago in a mysterious car accident. When Jeanne, a beautiful young woman, enters the home of Mika and Andre, raising questions about her possible relationship to the family, tensions mount, alliances shift, and all the while, Mika prepares and faithfully serves her special recipe for hot chocolate each evening.
| Starring | Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Michel Robin, Brigitte Catillon |
|---|---|
| Director | Claude Chabrol |
| Studio | FUSION MEDIA SALES |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 37 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Thriller, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: French |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 2000 To Rent: DVD: 26 Apr 2010 |
Icy, ambiguous thriller that exposes the passionate secrets that underlie an apparently conventional bourgeois family.
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A slow burner..
I enjoyed this movie, but more for the sum of its parts than for its whole.
Isabelle Huppert lights up pretty much anything I have ever seen her in, ... read more »
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Merci pour l'ennui
Although several of Chabrol's films are descibed as paying homage to Hitchcock I find that I'm always disappointed ( for example, Le Boucher) and this ... read more »
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More Agatha then Alfie.
Not as slow as The Mousetrap, but less exciting than one would expect from the combined brilliance of both Claude Chabrol and Isabelle Huppert.
The ... read more »
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Good Night In
Enjoyed this film and could not see where it was going. Has a certain French point of view that a Brit would not have thus providing an extra ingredient.
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