CHOCOLAT
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Title: Chocolat
Year: 2000 Johnny Depp plays: Roux Directed by: Lasse Hallström Written by: Joanne Harris (novel); Robert Nelson Jacobs (screenplay) Genre: Drama/Romance/Comedy MPAA Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 122 minutes |
PLOT
When Vianne Rocher and her 6-year-old daughter move to a small French village, they are met with doubt when they open a chocolate shop--with Sunday hours--across the street from a church. The village's mayor refuses to accept this and is determined to shut Vianne's shop down. When a group of river drifters--who are led by Roux--arrive, the mayor gets shaken up even more. Vianne befriends Roux while winning the townspeople over with her delicious chocolates.
QUOTES
Serge: We are still married, in the eyes of God.
Josephine: Then He must be blind.
Vianne Rocher: What do you see?
Armande Voizin: Not a damned thing.
Vianne Rocher: Come on, it's a game. What do you see?
Armande Voizin: I see a cranky old woman too tired to play games.
Vianne Rocher: Oh. I've got just the thing for you.
Père Henri: [hearing confession] What else?
Guillaume Blerot: Impure thoughts. The woman who runs the chocolaterie...
Père Henri: Vianne Rocher?
Guillaume Blerot: She suggested I buy chocolate sea shells for the widow
Audel. And, well... I guess that got me to thinking, about the widow Audel.
Père Henri: At her age? At *your* age?
Guillaume Blerot: Yes, and yes.
Luc Clairmont: [at confession] Each time I tell myself it's the
last time, but then I get a whiff of her hot chocolate, or...
Madame Audel: ...Seashells. Chocolate seashells, so small, so plain, so
*innocent*. I thought, oh, just one little taste, it can't do any harm. But it
turned out they were filled with rich, sinful...
Yvette Marceau: ...And it *melts*, God forgive me, it melts ever so
slowly on your tongue, and tortures you with pleasure.
Luc Clairmont: Grandmère, bonjour.
Armande Voizin: I, um... would you like a cup of, uh...
Luc Clairmont: No, no thank you. I'm just here to, uh... do a portrait.
Armande Voizin: Whose?
Vianne Rocher: Yours, actually. Is the light OK where she's sitting?
