![]() ![]() The Comte fears that Vianne is a threat to his control on the town and behaves accordingly, warning all the townspeople of the dangerous and evil nature of her chocolate. Hidden passions left buried for years are brought to the surface with the help of the chocolate. She reunites young Luc Clairmont with his grandmother Armande ( Judi Dench), a passionate and sarcastic woman deemed a bad influence by Luc's conservative mother Caroline ( Carrie-Anne Moss). She convinces abused wife Josephine Muscat ( Lena Olin) to leave her drunk husband Serge ( Peter Stormare) and come work with her at the chocolaterie. Although at first, the townspeople give her a chilly reception, they slowly warm up to her as they are tempted by her fabulous concoctions. ![]() Using the secret recipes of her mother's people, Vianne opens a chocolaterie during Lent, earning the Comte's disapproval. The village is run by the Comte de Reynaud ( Alfred Molina), a man who has stricter moral standards than the local priest and holds everyone to them. In 1959, the now-grown Vianne ( Juliette Binoche) and her own daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol) are living this same lifestyle - though Anouk hopes to settle down someday - and as the film begins they move into the stuffy, traditional French Catholic village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes. He brought her to Europe, but she didn't stay with him, departing with their daughter Vianne to move from place to place with the "clever North wind." Once upon a time, a European pharmacist/explorer fell in love with and married a South American woman who was destined from birth to move as the wind blows, sharing her "ancient cacao remedies" with unhappy people. Chocolat is a 2000 British-American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Lasse Hallström and adapted from a novel by the same name by Joanne Harris.
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