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Merci Pour Le Chocolat
2000
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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Merci Pour Le Chocolat
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 |
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| Director | Claude Chabrol |
| Studio | ARTIFICIAL EYE |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 37 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Thriller, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: French |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 19 Nov 2001 Production year: 2000 |
| Format | DVD |
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Alfred Hitchcock always wanted to set a film in a Swiss chocolate factory and he would doubtless have been amused by this realisation of his dream by his most fervent disciple, Claude Chabrol. Chabrol's adaptation of Charlotte Armstrong's 1948 novel is a typically rich mixture of malice and mockery. However, his ultra-cool approach perhaps removes some of the spice from the tale, making the central pursuit (by an undetected murderess, Isabelle Huppert, of her pianist husband's new protégée) somewhat lacking in suspense. Yet Chabrol's talent for social satire remains undimmed and the clinical way in which he exposes the murderess's bourgeois foibles is deliciously excruciating to watch.
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Icy, ambiguous thriller that exposes the passionate secrets that underlie an apparently conventional bourgeois family.
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9 out of 9 people found this review helpful
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don't think so!
Disappointing story......................expect better than this.
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
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, and her shadowy, jealous, cold but yet oddly maternal figure in this Chabrol effort is just as strongly portrayed as anything else I have seen her do. The only frustration comes when, as the movie moves to an agonising finish, one is suddenly unsure as to what motivated her all along.
But never mind that. The continual intrigue, the clever repetitions amongst the characters and the sinister use of Liszt's piano music all combine into a thoroughly worthwhile hour-and-a-half. I gave it five.. but I'd give it 5.5 if I could. -
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Merci Pour Le Chocolat
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 ...
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