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I received it in good time. The service was great. I bought this movie as a Christmas gift for my daughter. She really liked it.
I will enjoy this movie over and over as if diving into a bag of chocolates. Innocence and lust, desire and disdain, love and hate, joy and sorry, and all wrapped in a deliciousness one can only acquire by tasting for yourself. Enjoy. Chocolat. an overwhelming assault of the senses in perfect harmony with all things good.
The film is wonderful. I received the order very quickly, and in great condition. I was pleased with the price.
Dame Judith Dench was particularly outstanding (my favorite movie of hers).The blu-ray version is clear and vibrant. It was very cleverly written and has great acting. Superlative movie in every way. First off, I like good movies with "guts" - i.e. - if you liked Armageddon (or most of the movies produced today) we are in two different worlds.Chocolat is not a "girlie" movie.
She can act.There are quite a few vitriolic one-star reviews of this film. Her 'adversary' in the film is not the puppy priest but the repressed, hypocritical Count. Many of them compare it unfavorably to the book; since I haven't read the book, I can only suppose they have a point, but I don't much care. Yes, dears, there ARE villages in France just as picturesque and unspoiled as that one, and with any luck you'll find a celebrated gourmet restaurant there. a pretty confection, like a chocolate-filled eclair, though the chocolate had just a hint of pepper. . a special genre, a rule unto itself. It's also a film in the vein of "magic realism" established by Latin American novelists.
Only veteran actress Judi Dench shows theatrical savvy -- control of her body, ability to express large emotions with a flicker of her eyes or lips, 'economy' of gesture and posture. Yes, the film can be taken as anti-clerical, and if you are fundamentally an anti-disestablishmentarian, you'd be wise to skip it.Perhaps the best part of the film is the photography of the village near Toulouse. Other reviews denounce the film as being hostile to religion, specifically to conservative Catholicism. Bon appétit. Vianne, the chocolate-sorceress, is indeed an atheist, though her stance seems mostly gratuitous. One can't help comparing it to "Like Water for Chocolate." That comparison does expose the shortcomings of Chocolat: there's not enough of the manic energy, there's nothing quite as funny or as poignant, and the acting isn't half as good. They are correct. That's how it tasted to me, anyway.
The film was a sweet treat, the sort of confection it's best to forget you've eaten lest you feel guilty about your waist-line or waste-time. Juliette Binoche plays her role more as Cinderella's Fairy Godmother than as the half-Mayan sorceress she's supposed to be. I might have preferred MORE food, a longer culinary build-up to the birthday feast that becomes the turning-point of the story. Johnny Depp is more mannequin than Man, more Hollywood pirate than Gallic gypsy.
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