The most tempting of all sweets becomes the key weapon in a battle of sensual pleasure versus disciplined self-denial in this comedy. In 1959, a mysterious woman named Vianne (Juliette Binoche) moves with her young daughter into a small French village, where much of the community's activities are dominated by the local Catholic church. A few days after settling into town, Vianne opens up a confectionery shop across the street from the house of worship -- shortly after the beginning of Lent. While the townspeople are supposed to be abstaining from worldly pleasures, Vianne tempts them with unusual and delicious chocolate creations, using her expert touch to create just the right candy to break down each customer's resistance. With every passing day, more and more of Vianne's neighbors are succumbing to her sinfully delicious treats, but the Comte de Reynaud (Alfred Molina), the town's mayor, is not the least bit amused; he is eager to see Vianne run out of town before she leads the town into a deeper level of temptation. Vianne, however, is not to be swayed, and with the help of another new arrival in town, a handsome Irish Gypsy named Roux (Johnny Depp), she plans a "Grand Festival of Chocolate," to be held on Easter Sunday.
- THE TRUMAN SHOW:
Peter Weir directed this comedy-drama, a commentary on all-pervasive media manipulation. Scripted by Andrew M. Niccol (Gattaca), the film plays like a combination of the British TV series The Prisoner and Paul Bartel's The Secret Cinema. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is unaware that his entire life is a hugely popular 24-hour-a-day TV series. In this real-time documentary, every moment of Truman's existence is captured by concealed cameras and telecast to a giant global audience. His friends and family are actors who smile pleasantly at Truman's familiar catchphrase greeting, "In case I don't see you later, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!" Employed at an insurance company, Truman is married to merry Meryl (Laura Linney), and they live in the cheerful community of Seahaven, an island "paradise" where the weather is always mild and no unpleasantness intrudes. This is the basic situation of the series, which has grown over the years into a billion-dollar franchise for the TV network. As an unwanted pregnancy, Truman was adopted by the network and raised in the zoolike environment of a TV soundstage. Thus, the TV audience became hooked when Truman was very young. Now, at age 30, he still doesn't know he's a prisoner on an immense domed city-size soundstage, simulating Seahaven. Both the illusion and the ratings will collapse if Truman ever leaves Seahaven. In addition to elaborate events staged to make sure he stays put, Truman is given constant reminders of how wonderful Seahaven is compared to dangers in other parts of the world. However, his growing suspicions make him curious enough to try to leave, and the show's director and master manipulator Christof (Ed Harris) must constantly devise ways to thwart Truman's escape attempts. To enter the harbor, Truman must overcome his fear of water, intentionally instilled in him when his father "died" in a boating accident and was written out of the script.
France, 1959. On a windy night the mysterious Vianne and her daughter Anouk arrive in the village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes. Vianne rents a shop from the widow and a few days after Armande opened a fine chocolate shop. The shop is located just opposite the church and immediately arouses the attention of small communities. The mayor, Comte de Reynaud, the court of public morality is not keen to see the novelty. For more Vianne has a sort of sixth sense to sense weaknesses of each and to advise the praline right for every desire.In a short time, his shop became the most popular. Everyone can find temporary remedy to their difficulties. Reynaud and can not bear rallies the right-thinking people to boycott the store. Until one day arrive in the country Roux, a gypsy musician who decides to take the side of Vianne.Someone wrote that it is a "Footlose chocolate" and perhaps it is true. It is certain that Hallstrà m after The Cider House Rules, returns to investigate the dynamics of the scandal. This time he does so with the tone of the play, using a cast of high level and not forgetting the family (Lena Olin is his wife).
THE TRUMAN SHOW:
The first thirty years (a little 'less: 10 909 days) in the life of Truman Burbank colorless (Carrey) has been smooth as oil in the quiet and affluent suburban community of Seahaven.
One day, however (with a delay compared to the spectators), he discovers that this idyllic picture is a gigantic hoax, a soap opera staged in a television studio as large as an entire region of which is the only real person filmed by cameras invisible.All the others are actors, led by producer-demiurge Christof (Harris)
.The screenplay of the masterful young New Zealander Andrew Niccol (Gattaca) combines the ingredients of Capra and Sturges with the most agonizing inventions Orwell, Sheckley, Dick, seconded by Director Weir, which is invisible "to live the originality of ideas and the obligation to translate into a language accessible to all "(P. Cherchi Usai).
The nightmare of the film's more ironic turn of the century is another expression of the Great paranoid fear of the U.S.: the creation of the Panopticon prison designed the device from English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the late eighteenth century: those who stay can be observed, but can not observe.
Paradoxically, it could indicate two weaknesses: Carrey and Weir. The first agrees to the bottom, but fails to support the complex nature of the tragicomic character and the film.
Eclectic filmmaker without a precise identity of the author, wise in the representation of uncertainty, "is a good director of story, not metanarratives" (F. Polla)
Described as the most expensive ($ 80 million) and popular art film ever made in Hollywood. 3 nomination, nemmeno un Oscar. 3 nominations, not even an Oscar.
The theme was anticipated by Paul Bartel with Secret Cinema (1968), medium-length film in BN story of a girl who discovers how his life is filmed for sadistic fun with his friends
Vianne Rocher, an expert Chocolatier, drifts across Europe with her daughter Anouk . In the winter of 1959, they travel to a tranquil French village that closely adheres to tradition, as led by the village mayor, Comte Paul de Reynaud (Alfred Molina). Vianne opens a Chocolaterie just as the villagers begin observing the forty days of Lent, much to the chagrin of Reynaud. Vianne, who wears more provocative clothing, does not go to church, and has an illegitimate child, does not fit in well with the town's people, but is nevertheless optimistic about her business. Her friendly and alluring nature begins to win the villagers over one by one, causing Reynaud to openly speak against her for tempting the people during a time of abstinence and self-denial.
One of the first to fall under the spell of Vianne and her confections is Armande (Judi Dench), her elderly, eccentric landlady. Armande laments that her cold, devoutly-pious daughter Caroline (Carrie-Anne Moss) will not let her see her grandson Luc because she is a "bad influence". Vianne arranges for Luc and his Grandmother to see each other in the chocolaterie, where they develop a close bond. Caroline later reveals to Vianne that her mother is a severe diabetic, though Armande continues to indulge in the chocolate despite her condition.
Vianne also develops a friendship with a disturbed woman, Josephine (Lena Olin), who is a victim of brutal beatings by her alcoholic husband Serge (Peter Stormare). After a particularly brutal blow to the head, Josephine leaves her husband and moves in with Vianne and Anouk. As she begins to work at the chocolaterie and Vianne teaches her her craft, Josephine becomes a self-confident, changed woman. Under the instruction of Reynaud, Serge seemingly changes into a better man and he asks Josephine to come back to him. Finally happy and fulfilled, Josephine declines. A drunken Serge breaks into the chocolaterie later that night and attempts to attack both women before Josephine, in a moment of empowerment, knocks him out with a skillet.
As the rivalry between Vianne and Reynaud worsens, a band of river gypsies camp out on the outskirts of the village. While most of the town objects to their presence, Vianne embraces them, developing a mutual attraction to the gypsy Roux (Johnny Depp). Together they hold a birthday party for Armande with other village members and gypsies on Roux's boat. When Caroline sees Luc, who snuck out to go to the party, dancing with her mother, she begins to see how rigid she is with her son and that his grandmother's influence in his life may not be a bad thing.
After the party Vianne, Josephine, and Anouk all sleep on the boats, where Roux and Vianne make love. Late that night, Serge sets the boat where Josephine and Anouk are sleeping on fire. Both escape unharmed, but Vianne's faith in the village is shaken. Also that night, Luc returns to his grandmother's living room to see that she has finally died from complications of diabetes, devastating both him and his mother. After the fire, Roux packs up and leaves with his group, much to Vianne's sadness.
Deciding she cannot win against Reynaud or the strict traditions of the town, Vianne resolves to move to another place. Just before she does so, she goes into her kitchen to see most of the townspeople, who have come to love her and the way she has changed their lives, making chocolate for a festival Vianne had planned on Easter Sunday. Despite the major change in the town, Reynaud remains staunch in his abstinence from pleasures such as chocolate. On the Saturday evening before Easter, he opens the chocolate display and destroys the various confections with a knife. When a small piece of chocolate lands in his throat, he gives into the seduction and devours the chocolate before collapsing into tears and eventually falling asleep. The next day, Vianne promises not to reveal what happened, and a mutual respect between them is established. Roux returns in the summer to be with her, and despite her constant need for change, Vianne resolves to stay, having found a home for herself and her daughter in the village.
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- CHOCOLAT:
The most tempting of all sweets becomes the key weapon in a battle of sensual pleasure versus disciplined self-denial in this comedy. In 1959, a mysterious woman named Vianne (Juliette Binoche) moves with her young daughter into a small French village, where much of the community's activities are dominated by the local Catholic church. A few days after settling into town, Vianne opens up a confectionery shop across the street from the house of worship -- shortly after the beginning of Lent. While the townspeople are supposed to be abstaining from worldly pleasures, Vianne tempts them with unusual and delicious chocolate creations, using her expert touch to create just the right candy to break down each customer's resistance. With every passing day, more and more of Vianne's neighbors are succumbing to her sinfully delicious treats, but the Comte de Reynaud (Alfred Molina), the town's mayor, is not the least bit amused; he is eager to see Vianne run out of town before she leads the town into a deeper level of temptation. Vianne, however, is not to be swayed, and with the help of another new arrival in town, a handsome Irish Gypsy named Roux (Johnny Depp), she plans a "Grand Festival of Chocolate," to be held on Easter Sunday.
- THE TRUMAN SHOW:
Peter Weir directed this comedy-drama, a commentary on all-pervasive media manipulation. Scripted by Andrew M. Niccol (Gattaca), the film plays like a combination of the British TV series The Prisoner and Paul Bartel's The Secret Cinema. Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) is unaware that his entire life is a hugely popular 24-hour-a-day TV series. In this real-time documentary, every moment of Truman's existence is captured by concealed cameras and telecast to a giant global audience. His friends and family are actors who smile pleasantly at Truman's familiar catchphrase greeting, "In case I don't see you later, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!" Employed at an insurance company, Truman is married to merry Meryl (Laura Linney), and they live in the cheerful community of Seahaven, an island "paradise" where the weather is always mild and no unpleasantness intrudes. This is the basic situation of the series, which has grown over the years into a billion-dollar franchise for the TV network. As an unwanted pregnancy, Truman was adopted by the network and raised in the zoolike environment of a TV soundstage. Thus, the TV audience became hooked when Truman was very young. Now, at age 30, he still doesn't know he's a prisoner on an immense domed city-size soundstage, simulating Seahaven. Both the illusion and the ratings will collapse if Truman ever leaves Seahaven. In addition to elaborate events staged to make sure he stays put, Truman is given constant reminders of how wonderful Seahaven is compared to dangers in other parts of the world. However, his growing suspicions make him curious enough to try to leave, and the show's director and master manipulator Christof (Ed Harris) must constantly devise ways to thwart Truman's escape attempts. To enter the harbor, Truman must overcome his fear of water, intentionally instilled in him when his father "died" in a boating accident and was written out of the script.
Spero di esserti stata d'aiuto!
CHOCOLAT:
France, 1959. On a windy night the mysterious Vianne and her daughter Anouk arrive in the village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes. Vianne rents a shop from the widow and a few days after Armande opened a fine chocolate shop. The shop is located just opposite the church and immediately arouses the attention of small communities. The mayor, Comte de Reynaud, the court of public morality is not keen to see the novelty. For more Vianne has a sort of sixth sense to sense weaknesses of each and to advise the praline right for every desire.In a short time, his shop became the most popular. Everyone can find temporary remedy to their difficulties. Reynaud and can not bear rallies the right-thinking people to boycott the store. Until one day arrive in the country Roux, a gypsy musician who decides to take the side of Vianne.Someone wrote that it is a "Footlose chocolate" and perhaps it is true. It is certain that Hallstrà m after The Cider House Rules, returns to investigate the dynamics of the scandal. This time he does so with the tone of the play, using a cast of high level and not forgetting the family (Lena Olin is his wife).
THE TRUMAN SHOW:
The first thirty years (a little 'less: 10 909 days) in the life of Truman Burbank colorless (Carrey) has been smooth as oil in the quiet and affluent suburban community of Seahaven.
One day, however (with a delay compared to the spectators), he discovers that this idyllic picture is a gigantic hoax, a soap opera staged in a television studio as large as an entire region of which is the only real person filmed by cameras invisible.All the others are actors, led by producer-demiurge Christof (Harris)
.The screenplay of the masterful young New Zealander Andrew Niccol (Gattaca) combines the ingredients of Capra and Sturges with the most agonizing inventions Orwell, Sheckley, Dick, seconded by Director Weir, which is invisible "to live the originality of ideas and the obligation to translate into a language accessible to all "(P. Cherchi Usai).
The nightmare of the film's more ironic turn of the century is another expression of the Great paranoid fear of the U.S.: the creation of the Panopticon prison designed the device from English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the late eighteenth century: those who stay can be observed, but can not observe.
Paradoxically, it could indicate two weaknesses: Carrey and Weir. The first agrees to the bottom, but fails to support the complex nature of the tragicomic character and the film.
Eclectic filmmaker without a precise identity of the author, wise in the representation of uncertainty, "is a good director of story, not metanarratives" (F. Polla)
Described as the most expensive ($ 80 million) and popular art film ever made in Hollywood. 3 nomination, nemmeno un Oscar. 3 nominations, not even an Oscar.
The theme was anticipated by Paul Bartel with Secret Cinema (1968), medium-length film in BN story of a girl who discovers how his life is filmed for sadistic fun with his friends
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Vianne Rocher, an expert Chocolatier, drifts across Europe with her daughter Anouk . In the winter of 1959, they travel to a tranquil French village that closely adheres to tradition, as led by the village mayor, Comte Paul de Reynaud (Alfred Molina). Vianne opens a Chocolaterie just as the villagers begin observing the forty days of Lent, much to the chagrin of Reynaud. Vianne, who wears more provocative clothing, does not go to church, and has an illegitimate child, does not fit in well with the town's people, but is nevertheless optimistic about her business. Her friendly and alluring nature begins to win the villagers over one by one, causing Reynaud to openly speak against her for tempting the people during a time of abstinence and self-denial.
One of the first to fall under the spell of Vianne and her confections is Armande (Judi Dench), her elderly, eccentric landlady. Armande laments that her cold, devoutly-pious daughter Caroline (Carrie-Anne Moss) will not let her see her grandson Luc because she is a "bad influence". Vianne arranges for Luc and his Grandmother to see each other in the chocolaterie, where they develop a close bond. Caroline later reveals to Vianne that her mother is a severe diabetic, though Armande continues to indulge in the chocolate despite her condition.
Vianne also develops a friendship with a disturbed woman, Josephine (Lena Olin), who is a victim of brutal beatings by her alcoholic husband Serge (Peter Stormare). After a particularly brutal blow to the head, Josephine leaves her husband and moves in with Vianne and Anouk. As she begins to work at the chocolaterie and Vianne teaches her her craft, Josephine becomes a self-confident, changed woman. Under the instruction of Reynaud, Serge seemingly changes into a better man and he asks Josephine to come back to him. Finally happy and fulfilled, Josephine declines. A drunken Serge breaks into the chocolaterie later that night and attempts to attack both women before Josephine, in a moment of empowerment, knocks him out with a skillet.
As the rivalry between Vianne and Reynaud worsens, a band of river gypsies camp out on the outskirts of the village. While most of the town objects to their presence, Vianne embraces them, developing a mutual attraction to the gypsy Roux (Johnny Depp). Together they hold a birthday party for Armande with other village members and gypsies on Roux's boat. When Caroline sees Luc, who snuck out to go to the party, dancing with her mother, she begins to see how rigid she is with her son and that his grandmother's influence in his life may not be a bad thing.
After the party Vianne, Josephine, and Anouk all sleep on the boats, where Roux and Vianne make love. Late that night, Serge sets the boat where Josephine and Anouk are sleeping on fire. Both escape unharmed, but Vianne's faith in the village is shaken. Also that night, Luc returns to his grandmother's living room to see that she has finally died from complications of diabetes, devastating both him and his mother. After the fire, Roux packs up and leaves with his group, much to Vianne's sadness.
Deciding she cannot win against Reynaud or the strict traditions of the town, Vianne resolves to move to another place. Just before she does so, she goes into her kitchen to see most of the townspeople, who have come to love her and the way she has changed their lives, making chocolate for a festival Vianne had planned on Easter Sunday. Despite the major change in the town, Reynaud remains staunch in his abstinence from pleasures such as chocolate. On the Saturday evening before Easter, he opens the chocolate display and destroys the various confections with a knife. When a small piece of chocolate lands in his throat, he gives into the seduction and devours the chocolate before collapsing into tears and eventually falling asleep. The next day, Vianne promises not to reveal what happened, and a mutual respect between them is established. Roux returns in the summer to be with her, and despite her constant need for change, Vianne resolves to stay, having found a home for herself and her daughter in the village.