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Chocolat (2000)
Not very French
OK, a feel-good film, though the topics religion and intolerance is heavy enough to deal with in a movie. I've seen both Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche in better films - esp. JD in Gilbert Grape. This mixture of what Miramax think is French, confuse me, why play Mississippi-blues in a French river delta - and why mix the story up with native South-American Indians? And the casting of Peter Stormare, hello, he looked as he had forgot that he was not playing Agent Coq Rouge. I don't know, but it seems to me that Lasse Hallström had swalloved over too much. It had looked more real if the setting was in Creole country in the Deep South in USA. This is some kind of Disney-France. Aromathic, but less authentic.
And - if you are looking for a real woman that really knows how to cook for all the senses - and make people happy, sad and sexy, choose "Como agua para chocolate":
Molière (1978)
On DVD?
Finally, after all these years - I've read on a french message board that it will be released on DVD in January next year. Yes! The source was Ariane M. herself. I've looked over and over again for this film ever since I saw it - I was only 12 years old - and I will never forget it. Esp. Philippe Caubere, he was very good. The rest of the cast, also of course - but I will never forget the Death-scene, when they are running to stand still, with the bleeding JB Moliere in their arms. Perhaps Forman was inspired by in when he made the end of "Amadeus"? The music - from Henry Purcell's "King Arthur"... The poet is dead, long live the poet! Faerie in Norway