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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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Critics' reviews (3)
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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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A dark, velvety film which masks the rough with the smooth and coats a bitter pill in a veneer of decadent French... read more on Time Out
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Most helpful members' reviews (3)
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10 out of 10 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, ... more -
10 out of 10 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
don't think so!
Disappointing story......................expect better than this.
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Just look at the clothes and the lifestyle
The other reviews are right. This is a measured piece, far from the pace and tics of the Hollywood thriller.
But if you want a glimpse of the mores ... more -
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
the chabrol formula
no up to his former standards of 'Le Boucher' but decent viewing nevertheless, 'Merci pour le chocolat' has all his usual traits - a beautiful ... more
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10 out of 10 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, ... more
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10 out of 10 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, ... more -
10 out of 10 people found this review helpful
[Highly rated reviewer]
don't think so!
Disappointing story......................expect better than this.
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Just look at the clothes and the lifestyle
The other reviews are right. This is a measured piece, far from the pace and tics of the Hollywood thriller.
But if you want a glimpse of the mores ... more -
4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
the chabrol formula
no up to his former standards of 'Le Boucher' but decent viewing nevertheless, 'Merci pour le chocolat' has all his usual traits - a beautiful ... more
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4 out of 8 people found this review helpful
merci pour rien de toute, thin plot - if you manage to follow it, based on jealousy and wooden acting. Don't waste your time it is mostly Suisse French and ... more
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Drink at your own peril
I didn't hate this film but I felt a little cheated that the Mika character wasn't darker. Never really got any explanation as to why she did what she ... more
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[Highly rated reviewer]
Give me Isabelle Huppert any time
A bit of a mixed feeling, whilst fascinating the ending seemed a bit rushed but do rent it, very enjoyable and elegant film to watch
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- Trionon from London
- Posted 26 Jun 2008 13:31
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Cool French
These films are done so much better by the French. Isabelle Hupert didn't actually change her expression much througout the film but was somehow ... more
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[Highly rated reviewer]
Highly enjoyable
A highly enjoyable psycholoical thriller directed with great flair. The tone sits fascinatingly somewhere between reality and expressionism, never quite landing... more
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merci pour le chocolat
thought it was great well acted it took a while for the story to develop as you were not expecting the outcome. i thought about the film for many days after
Critics' reviews (3)
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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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A dark, velvety film which masks the rough with the smooth and coats a bitter pill in a veneer of decadent French... read more on Time Out
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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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