Chocolat
Year: | 2000 |
Director: | Lasse Hallström |
Cast: | Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, Judi Dench, Carrie Anne Moss, Lena Olin, Peter Stormare |
It blows them into a conservative, buttoned down town in provincial France, and when she opens a chocolatiere, it sets tongues wagging around town, some of them none to happily as the townspeople - each in his own way - enjoys or resists a personal liberation of his own.
Many of the characters are archetypes (Molina and Depp in particular), but the scenery is gorgeous, the story interesting, the moral of the story beautiful and noble, and the cast both attractive and lovable.