from Miramax
Directed by
Lasse
Hallström
Starring
Juliette
Binoche (Vianne)
Judi
Dench
Alfred
Molina
Lena
Olin
Johnny
Depp (Roux)
Carrie-Anne
Moss
John
Wood
Peter
Stormare
Hugh
O'Conor
Leslie
Caron
Written by
Joanne
Harris (novel)
Robert Nelson Jacobs
Rated: 
(for a scene of sensuality and some violence) |
 When Vianne (Juliette
Binoche), a mysterious stranger, and her child arrive in a tranquil
French town in the winter of 1959, nobody could have imagined
the impact that she and her spirited daughter would have on this
community stubbornly rooted in tradition. Within days, Vianne
opens a very unusual chocolate shop, filled with mouth-watering
confections, across the square from the church. Her ability to
perceive her customers' private desires and satisfy them with
just the right confection, coaxes the villagers to abandon themselves
to temptation. The resident nobleman and self-appointed leader
of the town are shocked that Vianne is tempting the local townspeople
with her delicacies. Fearing it will ruin his town, he pits himself
against Vianne and tries to forbid anyone from entering her shop,
hoping to run her out of town forever. But when another outsider
arrives, the handsome Roux (Johnny Depp), and joins forces with
Vianne to liberate the town, a dramatic confrontation arises
between those who prefer the ways of the past and those who revel
in their newly discovered taste for pleasure.
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