The French actress is such a unique talent and fine dramatic actress that you can forget how much of a luminous movie-star presence she can be. Even when things get dark, a humorous tone takes over and brightens up the shadows.īinochete is a warm delight. Hallstrom and screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs could have gone deeper on any number of topics they address but they fall well short of making any impact. A subplot involving domestic abuse ends with a bonk on the head with a frying pan, and laughter. Dench’s character is estranged from her daughter (Carrie Anne Moss), but her relationship with her grandson bridges that gap in little time. But, Vianne’s charm and hospitality ingrain her to the townspeople. The mayor is the main person who wants to get rid of Binoche’s Vianne, and that is mostly through political and societal pressure. The film is presented as a light-hearted comedy with relatively low stakes. She runs afoul of the local mayor (Alfred Molina) while befriending her landlady (Judi Dench), an abused woman (Lena Olin) and a band of river nomads led by Johnny Depp. The film stars Juliette Binoche as a wandering chocolatier who lands in a conservative religious French village to open up a chocolate shop, right at the beginning of Lent. But is it the terrible, no-good, very bad film its reputation has made it out to be? The short answer is no, but the long answer is a bit more nuanced. The film’s legacy is more entrenched in controversy as its nominations are attributed to shameless Oscar campaigning by Miramax and Harvey Weinstein. Those four films are unassailable in this lineup, but then there’s the fifth film: Lasse Hallstrom’s romantic dramedy Chocolat. The 2000 Best Picture lineup features a blockbuster swords-and-sandals crowd-pleaser, a star vehicle about corporate evil, an ensemble on the war on drugs, and an epic martial arts foreign language film. In preparation for the next Smackdown Team Experience is traveling back to 2000.
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