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I admit it's probably because French is my mother tongue, but still. The most annoying thing about this film is the mix of accent, real or false. The characters are well built and very well played. The story is interesting and light hearted, with some hit of drama and laughters. The sets are very immersive and realistic, with fitting wardrobe.

It's presented to us as a tale told from mother to daughter, almost like a legend. Reviewed by AvidClimber 8 / 10 Chocolat - The tale of a mother and her will to help using cocoaĬhocolat is about the oddball in the village, the outsider bringing new perspective. The acting is overall very good, Alfred Molina,Julliete Binoche and Judi Dench specifically are stunning in their roles. The soundtrack is wonderful, and fits perfectly each scene.

The natural aura that the film exudes has much to do with the excellent work in the lightning and in the scenario,with rudimentary, but harmful stores in the small Italian city. The art direction is also good, very suggestive and definitely is important to the film overall.

And is up to the viewer to discover what these meanings are. The characters which appears in the film have special kind of personality and a subtle meaning in them as well. The way the city reacts is also very curious. Very interesting, and it's definitely a film to be appreciated. The chocolat itself represented some kind of a freedom and liberation of the repressed side of the persons. And to the woman depressed, scarred by life,with bitter personality, she then offered spicy chocolate. For example, for the boy with a spicy personality, bitter chocolate she offered. The plot is indeed very good, and despite being simple at a first sight it have various layers and subtle symbolism, specifically in the 'chocolate' types. He tells her that it is a line that is there but not there, a symbol for the boundaries that exist in the country between rich and poor, master and servant, white and black, coloniser and colonised, male and female a line that is always visible but impossible to approach or pass.Reviewed by jackasstrange 8 / 10 Both artistic and very entertainingĬhocolat is a good film. Towards the end of the film, France's father reveals a central theme of the film as he explains to her what the horizon is.

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The title Chocolat (, ' chocolate') comes from the 1950s slang meaning 'to be cheated,' and thus refers to the status in French Cameroon of being black and being cheated it is also an allusion to Protée's dark-brown skin and the racial fetishism of Africans by Europeans. Protée is moved from his in-house job to working outdoors in the garage as a mechanic. Aimée consequently asks her husband to remove him from the house. She attempts to seduce Protée after Luc has left but he rejects her advance. During the fight, Aimée sits nearby, unseen by the two. This later results in a fight between Luc and Protée, which Protée wins. He acknowledges Aimée's attraction to Protée in the presence of other black servants. This is brought to a head through Luc Segalen ( Jean-Claude Adelin), a Western drifter who stays with the Dalens family after a small aircraft crashes nearby. The conflict of the film comes from the discomfort created as France and her mother attempt to move past the established boundaries between themselves and the native Africans. The story is told through the eyes of young France, showing her friendship with the 'houseboy,' Protée, as well the sexual tension between him and her young and beautiful mother, Aimée. As they ride, France's mind drifts and we see her as a young girl in Mindif, French Cameroon in 1957, where her father was a colonial administrator. Park ( Emmet Judson Williamson), an African American who has moved to Africa and is driving to Limbe with his son. An adult woman named France walks down a road toward Douala, Cameroon.