Should you watch Chocolat?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Chocolat
Film · 2000
In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.
The sides of Chocolat
- A chocolate shop opening during Lent
- A mother and daughter in a strict French village
- Johnny Depp as a river drifter
Chocolat is good for you if…
- you like a warm story about chocolate in a small French town.
- you like Juliette Binoche falling for a drifter on a boat.
- you like a mother and daughter who drift from town to town with the north wind.
Chocolat is bad for you if…
- you need momentum, and this village changes slowly.
- you roll your eyes at a sweet lesson about tolerance.
About: tolerance · pleasure · belonging
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