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Chocolat

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Chocolat	comment	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.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. 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."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. 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.Using the secret recipes of her mother's people, Vianne opens a chocolaterie during Lent, earning the Comte's disapproval. Although at first, the townspeople give her a chilly reception, they slowly warm up to her as they are tempted by her fabulous concoctions. She convinces abused wife Josephine Muscat (Lena Olin) to leave her drunk husband Serge (Peter Stormare) and come work with her at the chocolaterie. 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). Hidden passions left buried for years are brought to the surface with the help of the chocolate.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. He spreads rumors about her atheism and liberal lifestyle, and even uses the local priest as a mouthpiece for his own ideas.Conflict is further stirred up by the arrival of a group of Romani, led by the impetuous and handsome Roux (Johnny Depp). Vianne, recognizing fellow outcasts, is the only shop owner in the town not to "boycott immorality" and refuse them service. She and Armande even contrive to unite them with the more liberal members of the town during Armande's 70th birthday celebration.Although she changes everyone else's lives in the process, Vianne herself is changed by the people she meets in the town, specifically Roux — with whom she develops a romantic relationship — Josephine, and Armande. Whether or not Vianne can overcome her wanderlust is as big a question as whether severity or joy will finally win out over the town.Primarily remembered today as having been nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture, in what commentators then and now regard as the most egregious example of Miramax Films' notorious Oscar campaigns; this resulted in a huge backlash that has dogged the film ever since. Based on a novel by Joanne Harris which apparently nobody reads, with all the Nightmare Fuel taken out. Leslie Caron has a small role as Madame Audel.Not to be confused with the 2016 French film Chocolat with Omar Sy, which is about one of the earliest successful black entertainers in France. Also not to be confused with Chocolate, a Thai film about an autistic girl who goes after her ailing mother's debtors to pay for her chemotherapy.
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Chocolat / int_191e0d45	type	Preacher Man
Chocolat / int_191e0d45	comment	Preacher Man: Père Henri, a lovable young preacher who not only pays close attention to his flock's spiritual needs, but the quality of their lives. He's just a bit of an Extreme Doormat when it comes to the seemingly inhumanly devout Comte de Reynaud. Upon seeing him passed out in the chocolaterie's window, he realizes that the man has as much need of guidance as the rest, and starts treating him as another supplicant. Ultimately, he's the one who drops the film's anvil: faith isn't just supposed to condemn sins, it's supposed to encourage virtues - above all, compassion and tolerance.
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Chocolat / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
Chocolat / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: This film propelled Johnny Depp straight back into the sex-symbol territory he had fought so hard to get out of with his earlier films. He's held this title ever since, albeit in an extremely non-traditional way.
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Chocolat / int_1fc8335e	type	Deal with the Devil
Chocolat / int_1fc8335e	comment	Deal with the Devil: Vianne ponders on this after reflecting on a life with no magic, even referring to a fairy tale where a boy sold his shadow to a strange man later revealed to be the devil.
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Chocolat / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Chocolat / int_22a27b19	comment	Caroline Clairmont in the books is a vapid Alpha Bitch that micromanages her son, ostracizes Josephine, and attempts to bully her mother into going into a nursing home. In the movie, she's more reasonable in reminding Luc that he's giving up chocolate for Lent and genuinely worries about her mother's condition.
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Chocolat / int_254d3111	type	Chocolate of Romance
Chocolat / int_254d3111	comment	Chocolate of Romance: It provides the page image. The movie can be considered to be almost centered around this trope. Many a man buys chocolates from Vianne's shop for their loved ones or they are inspired to court women they have a crush on.
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Chocolat / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
Chocolat / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Anouk's father is only mentioned in the context of the scandal of Vianne being a single woman with a daughter in the '50s (they don't know who he is-apparently Vianne was rather promiscuous).
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Chocolat / int_2b5ab7c1	type	Analogy Backfire
Chocolat / int_2b5ab7c1	comment	Analogy Backfire: Subverted. When Vianne finds out that Armande is going blind in a year, and that Armande decides that she's going to die in the comfort of her home, Vianne starts to cry. Armande points out that Vianne told Guillaume that Charley would have preferred dignity as opposed to succumbing to pain, but Vianne retorts that Armande isn't a dog. Armande agrees; she isn't because, unlike Charley, she has a choice.
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Chocolat / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Chocolat / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: "Accidents" used in reference to children killing adults or using magic to cause mischief. Reynaud committed an "accident" in Chocolat, and Anouk does as well in The Girl With No Shadow. Rosette's little magical escapades are less lethal but nevertheless called accidents.
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Chocolat / int_337a0f4	type	TrailersAlwaysLie
Chocolat / int_337a0f4	comment	Trailers Always Lie: Some previews suggested that the movie was about someone selling aphrodisiacs disguised as chocolate. This happened in the film, sort of, but only once, and it didn't become a plot point.
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Chocolat / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Chocolat / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: There's at least one whole scene where Alfred Molina completely drops his otherwise fairly convincing French accent and reverts back to his native London accent.
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Chocolat / int_3866ab91	type	Deceased Parents Are the Best
Chocolat / int_3866ab91	comment	Deceased Parents Are the Best: Subverted. Vianne honors her mother and tries to respect her wishes about going out with a bang. She also is unsettled by the fact that Jeanne kept a series of newspaper articles about a child kidnapping, and the toddler was Vianne's age, named Sylviane. Zozie confirms in The Girl With No Shadow that Jeanne kidnapped Sylviane from her neighbor Michele and raised her as her own daughter, tracking down Michele for her ulterior purposes. Vianne comes to admit that Jeanne stole her life from her, even if it was one filled with magic and wonder.
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Chocolat / int_38bb862f	type	Don't You Dare Pity Me!
Chocolat / int_38bb862f	comment	Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Exact words used by Armande when Vianne learns she's diabetic and going blind.
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Chocolat / int_38d12399	type	Teens Are Monsters
Chocolat / int_38d12399	comment	Teens Are Monsters: Teenage girls are at least to Anouk; she gets along better with teen boys. In Zozie's teenage years, a spat of bullying led to her in retaliation poisoning a number of people at a school dance.
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Chocolat / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Chocolat / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Anouk Rocher comes into the store and says, "They're here!", and Vianne Rocher says "who's here?", and Anouk says "Pirates!" They go outside, and see Roux playing the guitar. Then Anouk says, "I bet he's the Captain." Depp, who plays the character Roux, played pirate Captain Jack Sparrow in the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise. Lena Olin and Johnny Depp appeared in The Ninth Gate (1999).
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Chocolat / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
Chocolat / int_396e1c2a	comment	The main reason why Caroline Clairmont wants her mother in a nursing home is that Armande is getting old and unable to care for herself; she has no idea that Armande is prepared to Face Death with Dignity, since Armande has hid that from everyone, and Caro feels responsible despite their falling out.
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Chocolat / int_3ae5f176	type	Flyaway Shot
Chocolat / int_3ae5f176	comment	Flyaway Shot: The movie ends with a zoom-out from the statue to an areal shot of the whole village.
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Chocolat / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Chocolat / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Armande Voizin calls out Father Reynaud for caring more about "the sanctity of marriage" when Josephine leaves Paul-Marie rather than the fact that Paul has been beating up his wife on a regular basis and close to the climax nearly murders her.
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Chocolat / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Chocolat / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Reynaud between Chocolat and Peaches for Monsieur le Cure, to the point where he and Vianne become similar.
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Chocolat / int_3ed23024	type	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
Chocolat / int_3ed23024	comment	Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: While Josephine is grateful that Vianne took her in after Josephine left her husband, she feels awkward on seeing that Vianne has returned, knowing that they had both loved Roux. And more so, that Roux had chosen Vianne
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Chocolat / int_3f45f1e6	type	Adaptational Heroism
Chocolat / int_3f45f1e6	comment	Adaptational Heroism: Vianne Rocher's mother. The book series at first hints, and later confirms, that she kidnapped her neighbor's baby and traveled the world to run from her crime. Here, Vianne is legitimately her daughter and she committed no kidnapping. Francis Reynaud in the film. He greets Anouk and Vianne warmly before learning that neither is religious and that Vianne had Anouk out of wedlock, and is unaware of Muscat abusing his wife. The minute Vianne shows him Josephine's bruise, he gets angry at Muscat and forces him into confessional and to clean up his image. He also exiles Muscat for burning down Roux's boat and nearly killing the people on board. Caroline Clairmont in the books is a vapid Alpha Bitch that micromanages her son, ostracizes Josephine, and attempts to bully her mother into going into a nursing home. In the movie, she's more reasonable in reminding Luc that he's giving up chocolate for Lent and genuinely worries about her mother's condition. Roux is much less abrasive here than he is in the book, though he remains a Deadpan Snarker. It helps that he has necklaces to sell rather than having to rely on others hiring him for labor and that the gypsies face less prejudice from the villagers. In addition, he doesn't fall for Vianne and Josephine at the same time.
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Chocolat / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Chocolat / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Josephine escapes her husband's influence, the Easter Festival goes as planned and Reynaud is caught in the act of trying to sabotage the gift boxes, but Armande is dead and Lansquenet no longer needs Vianne.
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Chocolat / int_41d5f145	type	Fluffy the Terrible
Chocolat / int_41d5f145	comment	Fluffy the Terrible: The "Kindly Ones" as Vianne names them. They are a social worker and a priest who tried to take Anouk and Rosette away from her, all because she would not baptize Rosette.
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Chocolat / int_43b154c9	type	Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Chocolat / int_43b154c9	comment	Not Even Bothering with the Accent: Most characters manage to sound as if they at least knew what a French accent sounded like (it helped that Juliette Binoche is actually French, and so was about half the cast). Johnny Depp, however, decided his character was Irish. This is somewhat justified by his lifestyle as a gypsy. Judi Dench, notably, keeps her natural accent.
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Chocolat / int_46290b93	type	Manic Pixie Dream Girl
Chocolat / int_46290b93	comment	Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Vianne makes the whole village way more relaxed and shows them how to enjoy their life. She especially helps Josephine and Armande.
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Chocolat / int_477bc5c4	type	Go and Sin No More
Chocolat / int_477bc5c4	comment	Go and Sin No More: Serge tries to abuse this trope, pandering to Reynaud's beliefs to guilt him into keeping quiet about Serge's abuse (repeatedly, even as Serge only gets more violent and sadistic). Eventually, Reynaud replies to Serge's whining, 'Are you going to tell the police what you've done? No? Then I will assume you're not really contrite'.
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Chocolat / int_4782e60f	type	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
Chocolat / int_4782e60f	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Thierry in The Girl With No Shadow, to almost no one's surprise.
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Chocolat / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Chocolat / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "My mother knew Roux's return had nothing to do with a silly old door."
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Chocolat / int_54428f7b	type	Ashes to Crashes
Chocolat / int_54428f7b	comment	Ashes to Crashes: In a non-comedic sense. Vianne decides that she cannot win against Reynaud's strict traditions, and decides to move on. Anouk refuses to go, and during a scuffle, the urn containing the ashes of Vianne's mother falls and shatters.
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Chocolat / int_54cbd0cb	type	This Is Unforgivable!
Chocolat / int_54cbd0cb	comment	This Is Unforgivable!: When the Comte discovers what Serge has done to the boats, he realizes that the latter is beyond any possible redemption so, knowing that, should he call the police, it will, along with the townsfolk, think that it was Reynaud to order to Serge to burn the boats, he banishes Serge forever from the town.
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Chocolat / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Chocolat / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Josephine Muscat suffers this from Paul-Marie. Vianne later suffers emotional abuse at Thierry's hands, which she calls him out for, mainly in how he tries to control her life as well as her daughter's lives.
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Chocolat / int_59eebb51	type	Baby Be Mine
Chocolat / int_59eebb51	comment	Baby Be Mine: In Chocolat, it's gradually revealed through reminiscences that Vianne's mother Jeanne stole her from a neighbour, reasoning to herself that she would take better care of the child. Vianne and her birth mother are reunited in The Girl with No Shadow long after Jeanne's death, and while Vianne still loves her she eventually acknowledges that her abduction was a terrible sin.
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Chocolat / int_5cbb2384	type	G-Rated Sex
Chocolat / int_5cbb2384	comment	G-Rated Sex: Most of the chocolate the townspeople eat make them feel bliss and other rich sinful passionate feelings. Enough to make them go to confessional for those "sinful" feelings.
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Chocolat / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Chocolat / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: After the events of Chocolat, Reynaud goes from being a Hypocrite prejudiced priest to a Reasonable Authority Figure when North African Muslims move into Les Merauds. What's more, the narration emphasizes that he does this despite the village not liking that he is more tolerant.
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Chocolat / int_649f5bec	type	Creepy Souvenir
Chocolat / int_649f5bec	comment	Creepy Souvenir: Karim Bencharki is a Serial Rapist who keeps trophies from his victims and prospective victims. One of a teenage Anouk's belongings is found in his collection, although she thankfully falls in the latter group.
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Chocolat / int_64f3ea6e	type	Disneyfication
Chocolat / int_64f3ea6e	comment	Disneyfication: The anti-religious theme of the movie adaptation was softened by replacing the bitter churchman of the book with a town representative. Also, the town itself was made to look drab and ugly in the opening acts, when the very first scene in the book describes the heroine and her daughter watching a bright parade through the streets of the same town. The novel ended with a brief, drunken hookup between the heroine and a male supporting character, leaving her pregnant as she left the village to continue drifting. In the movie, the relationship between her and the man is developed into a full romantic subplot, he returns at the end, and the heroine decides she doesn't need to leave the village, breaking the cycle. Also Roux returns with a new boat by the end of the film, while in the book it takes him several years to earn the money.
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Chocolat / int_6b05b601	type	Jerkass Has a Point
Chocolat / int_6b05b601	comment	Jerkass Has a Point: The main reason why Caroline Clairmont wants her mother in a nursing home is that Armande is getting old and unable to care for herself; she has no idea that Armande is prepared to Face Death with Dignity, since Armande has hid that from everyone, and Caro feels responsible despite their falling out. The only legitimate point that Thierry makes is that Vianne lied to him about everything: from her name to her marital status, and that she never came clean to him about anything. Vianne wasn't interested in a relationship with him apart from losing her chocolate shop, but he has a legitimate reason, to call her out.
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Chocolat / int_6bccf2ba	type	Supreme Chef
Chocolat / int_6bccf2ba	comment	Supreme Chef: Vianne's creations are mouth-watering enough to win over an entire town of strict Catholics during Lent.
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Chocolat / int_6bf93fc7	type	FanService
Chocolat / int_6bf93fc7	comment	Fanservice: The flashback depicting George and Chitza having sex not long after meeting one another for the first time.
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Chocolat / int_708cabf8	type	Sleeping Dummy
Chocolat / int_708cabf8	comment	Sleeping Dummy: Luc pads his bed (with crumpled drawing paper) so he can sneak out to his grandmother's birthday party.
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Chocolat / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Chocolat / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: A few instances: In Chocolat Josephine goes alone to her old house to get her clothes and books before her ex-husband throws them out. It was Sunday, during church, but Paul-Marie stayed at home... In The Girl With No Shadow Jean-Loup gives Anouk photographic proof that Zozie is an identity thief and not what she seems to be. Anouk in response tears the photographs up because she won't hear anything bad about Zozie. Cue Face Palm from the audience.
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Chocolat / int_72b0dfd2	type	Being Good Sucks
Chocolat / int_72b0dfd2	comment	Being Good Sucks: After his Heel–Face Turn, Reynaud finds that his parishioners don't appreciate that he is stricter on them about tolerance. This becomes pronounced when he chides a local boy for writing racist slurs on a wall in Les Merauds, and the boy's father protests that Reynaud grabbed his ear and made him scrub off the words.
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Chocolat / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Chocolat / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The DVD cover would have you think that Roux is a major character alongside Vianne but he doesn't show up until a good hour into the film, and even then his scenes are fairly limited as the love interest and nothing more.
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Chocolat / int_7458a1a4	type	Southern Gothic Satan
Chocolat / int_7458a1a4	comment	Southern Gothic Satan: Inverted. Vianne uses her Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane chocolate powers to draw out the good in the townsfolk. Their passions, love for life and each other, etc.
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Chocolat / int_75b3422b	type	An Insert
Chocolat / int_75b3422b	comment	An Insert: In several of the kitchen scenes, you see a woman's hands stirring chocolate. These are not Juliette Binoche's hands, but an extra's. Vianne's bracelet was added to make it look like her.
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Chocolat / int_780a078e	type	Self-Made Orphan
Chocolat / int_780a078e	comment	Self-Made Orphan: Zozie is one after her mother wanted to take her to a doctor, following her poisoning a bunch of people at a dance.
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Chocolat / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Chocolat / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: In between Chocolat and The Girl With No Shadow the wind pulled on Vianne and Anouk so hard that she abandoned magic completely, and the "Kindly Ones" — a social worker and a priest— followed her after she gave birth to a baby with cri du chat. No wonder Vianne becomes so disillusioned.
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Chocolat / int_7886d4d0	type	Decemberâ€“December Romance
Chocolat / int_7886d4d0	comment	December–December Romance: Guillaume Blerot and the widow Audel. The young priest is at first shocked that Guillaume's for her... at her age and at his age!
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Chocolat / int_7ad0e492	type	Imaginary Friend
Chocolat / int_7ad0e492	comment	Imaginary Friend: Anouk's kangaroo, Pantoufle, who seems a little less imaginary at the end was a way for her to cope with moving from place to place so much. He leaves when she doesn't need him anymore.
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Chocolat / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Chocolat / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: This is what ends up stopping Zozie; Anouk while struggling with her asks, "What was in the black pinata?" in Dia de Los Muertos.
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Chocolat / int_7bd88e4a	type	Slain in Their Sleep
Chocolat / int_7bd88e4a	comment	Slain in Their Sleep: Serge attempts this by setting fire to the boats while Josephine and Anouk are sleeping. They escape unscathed but everyone else was shaken up. For a moment, Vianne had believed her daughter had died in the fires.
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Chocolat / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
Chocolat / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: When Vianne and Anouk first meet Roux, he's a bit gruff and refers to himself and the other boat people as "river rats". Anouk asks, with Innocent Inaccurate sincerity, asks if river rats are like pirates. Roux can't help but smile and say yes. He shows off his treasure: necklaces for sale.
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Chocolat / int_8183248	type	Never Mess with Granny
Chocolat / int_8183248	comment	Never Mess with Granny: Armande Voizin. She saves Josephine from her husband Paul-Marie with Guillaume's help and indirectly blackmails Reynaud, knowing that he murdered two gypsies by setting their boat on fire with a Molotov Cocktail.
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Chocolat / int_822ff0d7	type	Relative Error
Chocolat / int_822ff0d7	comment	Relative Error: Inès Bencharki accompanies her brother Karim throughout his life, eventually settling down in Lansquenet-sous-Tannes after attending his wedding there. Her asocial behaviour causes much speculation in the community as to their true relationship, with the most common rumour being that she's his mistress or first wife. The truth is that she's actually his mother.
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Chocolat / int_859edb3a	type	Pygmalion Snap Back
Chocolat / int_859edb3a	comment	Pygmalion Snapback: The Comte's efforts to change Josephine's husband don't work out.
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Chocolat / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Chocolat / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: While Vianne still loves her mother and honors her memory, she eventually figures out that Jeanne kidnapped her as a baby from a nearby neighbor named Michele Caillou. The reason for them traveling around the world was partly for Jeanne to run away from her crime since she knows it was a selfish thing to do despite her morphine-induced justifications that Michele left "Sylviane" in the car for a few minutes and couldn't love her enough. Vianne admits that as a mother now, she would be terrified of anything similar happening to Anouk, and comes to admit that Jeanne did a terrible thing to her and Michele.
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Chocolat / int_87bb6874	type	Villain with Good Publicity
Chocolat / int_87bb6874	comment	Villain with Good Publicity: Reynaud in Chocolat, up until the end. Afterwards, ten years later, he is framed for arson in Peaches for Monsieur le Cure.
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Chocolat / int_88574a	type	Narrator All Along
Chocolat / int_88574a	comment	Narrator All Along: We only discover at the end of the film that the narrator is Anouk.
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Chocolat / int_8d0785d5	type	Didn't Think This Through
Chocolat / int_8d0785d5	comment	Didn't Think This Through: Anouk didn't consider the moral consequences of casting a spell to get rid of the Kindly Ones, a social worker and priest that tried to take her and Rosette away while Vianne was out of the flat. The end results give her nightmares.
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Chocolat / int_8d6d9535	type	Artistic License â€“ Medicine
Chocolat / int_8d6d9535	comment	Artistic License – Medicine: Averted. While raw cacao (in food, drinks, ect) can treat or control diabetes naturally, it's the sweet decadent milk chocolate Armande willingly continues to eat along with the cacao drinks that aggravates her diabetic health.
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Chocolat / int_92f674e5	type	Revenge
Chocolat / int_92f674e5	comment	Revenge: Zozie runs on this, and has since she was a small child. She starts training Anouk in the fine art of it.
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Chocolat / int_94b3d517	type	Deconstruction
Chocolat / int_94b3d517	comment	Zozie is a Deconstruction of one; although her presence improves Vianne's life, she has ulterior motives.
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Chocolat / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Chocolat / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: The Comte has a gentle one at the end of the movie, where he breaks into the chocolate shop intending to destroy it... then he accidentally tastes the chocolate. The rush of simple delight he feels opens a floodgate for all the emotions he's been keeping bottled up inside, and he ends up devouring chocolate while sobbing, until he finally curls up in the remains of the Easter display and falls asleep, to be awoken the next morning by Vianne and an effervescent tablet in a glass of water. So it could be said that he gets his just desserts. Vianne is kind to him though and says she won't tell anyone.
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Chocolat / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Chocolat / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Vianne recalls how one time, her mother confessed to a priest about something she had did. He said that she must surrender Vianne to the proper authorities for the child's sake and what she did was a sin; Jeanne ran into the night with her daughter. She, and the readers, assume it's because Jeanne had Vianne out of wedlock. The truth is more complicated; Chocolat has Vianne finding newspaper clippings her mother kept of a child named Sylviane Callou who was kidnapped from her mother's car when the latter was picking up a prescription. Jeanne had confessed that she kidnapped the baby, and the priest reasonably was pointing out that it was a "sin" to steal someone else's child and leave the real parents bereft. The Girl With No Shadow confirms that Jeanne did commit this crime.
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Chocolat / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
Chocolat / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: When a drunken Muscat confesses to Reynaud that he "helped" with the gypsies after attacking Josephine and burning down Roux's boat, Armande chuckles and says that Reynaud and Muscat are two of a kind, since Reynaud as a child did the same thing. More generally, Vianne and each of her antagonists: she and Reynaud are both spiritual figures who attempt to influence the lives of those around them for the better; she and Zozie are both witches on the run, using magic and glamour to change themselves and get by; she and Ines Bencharki are both single women with children who have faced the shame and condemnation of society and it turns out Ines also possesses magical abilities. The similarities between Vianne and Reynaud become even more pronounced during Peaches for Monsieur le Cure when he has become more sensitive and understanding and less uptight.
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Chocolat / int_a3912d0e	type	Sexy Discretion Shot
Chocolat / int_a3912d0e	comment	Sexy Discretion Shot: After Yvette's husband Alphonse eats some of the cacao nibs and is consumed with passion, he begins to shower his wife with kisses and the overwhelmed Yvette manages to close the bathroom window before the scene fades to black. Just as Vianne and Roux start kissing, it cuts to the outside of the boat and moaning is heard.
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Chocolat / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Chocolat / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Vianne gives Father Francis some oyster-shaped pralines, and later on invites him for a free cup of chocolate. He doesn't give in until he breaks into her shop, and starts gorging on the chocolates in the display window.
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Chocolat / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
Chocolat / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: As revealed in Peaches for Monsieur le Cure, Francis Reynaud despite breaking into Vianne's shop with the intent of destroying her Easter gift boxes kept his position as the village priest. What starts the story is that he only gets fired after being framed for arson.
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Chocolat / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Chocolat / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Owing to the time period, rural life, and the Catholic Church's prevalence, people in Lanquesnet expect romantic partners to stay in a bad relationship for "the sanctity of marriage". Father Reynaud believes the important part is the confessional absolves them and that the vows matter more than the reality. Armande and Vianne find this to be nonsense; Armande outright laughs derisively when Father Reynaud tries to persuade Josephine to return to her physically abusive husband Paul-Marie, and Vianne has a You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! expression throughout the conversation. Caroline Clairmont keeps ranting about how much "that poor man" has suffered in a bruised Josephine's earshot, though Josephine mentions that Caroline thinks that Josephine is a broken outcast because she and Paul-Marie haven't had children. Roux says that while he would like to show Paul-Marie his fists for what he did to Josephine, the law would not favor him. Understandably, the film softens this so that Reynaud had no idea that Paul-Marie had hit Josephine, and confronts him in anger when Vianne shows Reynaud the bruise.
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Chocolat / int_acedb8f5	type	Oscar Bait
Chocolat / int_acedb8f5	comment	Oscar Bait: It didn't win any Oscars, but did get five nominations including Best Picture. That it got those five nominations at all, over what many viewed as superior films, became a major point of contention. There's no denying, though, that Judi Dench can do no wrong and her nomination, at least, was well-deserved.
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Chocolat / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
Chocolat / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Fortunately for Vianne, most of her customers have favorites. Her own are mendiants, biscuit-shaped chocolates that are sprinkled with raisins. Guillaume in Chocolat likes florentines and often shares them with his dog, Charley.
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Chocolat / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Chocolat / int_ae3d6438	comment	Roux is much less abrasive here than he is in the book, though he remains a Deadpan Snarker. It helps that he has necklaces to sell rather than having to rely on others hiring him for labor and that the gypsies face less prejudice from the villagers. In addition, he doesn't fall for Vianne and Josephine at the same time.
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Chocolat / int_b3de4c5b	type	Sex God
Chocolat / int_b3de4c5b	comment	Sex God: One of the side effects of consuming the chocolate from Vianne's shop is this, as well as the release of one's inhibitions. After a night of passion with her husband, a disheveled messy-haired Yvette walks into Vianne's shop and asks if she has more cacao nibs. Vianne asks her how many does she want, followed with Yvette asking how many does she got and Vianne smiling.
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Chocolat / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
Chocolat / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: When the rather unsympathetic and unpleasant Comte finds out that Serge has been beating his wife, he immediately tosses him into confession and forces him to reform. Then when he learns Serge started the fire at the dock in a bid to kill his wife, Vianne, and the Gypsies living there, the Comte is shocked, and he angrily orders Serge to leave the town, telling him that he is forever banished from the village.
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Chocolat / int_b4ac1655	type	Molotov Cocktail
Chocolat / int_b4ac1655	comment	Molotov Cocktail: As a boy Reynaud used one to torch a gypsy ship, and killed a sleeping couple inside.
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Chocolat / int_bb7ae292	type	Child by Rape
Chocolat / int_bb7ae292	comment	Child by Rape: Karim Bencharki was conceived via his mother's rape.
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Chocolat / int_bc1a0bb1	type	The Last Dance
Chocolat / int_bc1a0bb1	comment	The Last Dance: Armande Voizin's birthday. A diabetic who will go blind, she decides to stop taking her medicine and go all out in an extravagant feast, complete with plenty of wine.
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Chocolat / int_bc3cb7ff	type	Clear My Name
Chocolat / int_bc3cb7ff	comment	Clear My Name: Part of the plot in Peaches for Monsieur le Cure. Reynaud has been accused of arson, and though he has been guilty of it in the past, he claims that it's not him this time. Given he meets Vianne ten years after the events of Chocolat, time has allowed them to forgive each other and work together to find the real culprit.
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Chocolat / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Chocolat / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Zozie enjoys doing this.
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Chocolat / int_c59cfa2e	type	Felony Misdemeanor
Chocolat / int_c59cfa2e	comment	Felony Misdemeanor: Vianne deciding to open up a specialty chocolate shop on the first day of Lent, right across from the village church, puts her instantly at odds with Francis, who sees it as an affront against restraint.
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Chocolat / int_c6102eb0	type	Grand Theft Me
Chocolat / int_c6102eb0	comment	Grand Theft Me: A more mundane sort in The Girl With No Shadow. Zozie steals identities and lives for money, sometimes For the Evulz, and she plans to take Vianne's life. At least, that's what she tells Vianne; she really wants Anouk, to become a mother and mentor to her.
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Chocolat / int_cb957409	type	Good Is Boring
Chocolat / int_cb957409	comment	Good Is Boring: The heroine, Vianne, does not conform to the village's definition of "good".
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Chocolat / int_cbd0ac32	type	Environmental Symbolism
Chocolat / int_cbd0ac32	comment	Environmental Symbolism: The townspeople dress in clothes varying in black, grey and dark brown. While the newcomer Vianne wears bright, exotic colors of clothing as she opens up her chocolate shop.
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Chocolat / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
Chocolat / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: All over. Vianne refuses to obey her late mother's wishes for once to continue on with the tradition of traveling with the winds, and Comte de Reynold decides to abandon his strict ways of living after accidentally tasting some chocolate and realizing the error of his ways.
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Chocolat / int_cf6541ad	type	Social Services Does Not Exist
Chocolat / int_cf6541ad	comment	Social Services Does Not Exist: Subverted; they do, only they follow the religious side of the law. A social worker and a priest tracked down Vianne and tried to take away Rosette and Anouk when Vianne was out of their living space; only Anouk killing them with a spell caused them to go away.
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Chocolat / int_d08595d3	type	Broken Bird
Chocolat / int_d08595d3	comment	Broken Bird: Josephine, who is escaping an abusive marriage.
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Chocolat / int_d2b59903	type	Cool Old Lady
Chocolat / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Armande is an awesome grandmother (buying her grandson a book of Rimbaud's poetry) and friend, celebrating the finer things of life up until the end.
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Chocolat / int_d2cd18c0	type	Forbidden Fruit
Chocolat / int_d2cd18c0	comment	Forbidden Fruit: The villagers are tempted to break their Lenten fast with the decadent chocolate.
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Chocolat / int_d34cbda2	type	Implausible Deniability
Chocolat / int_d34cbda2	comment	Implausible Deniability: Vianne never cries. She would like you to know that.
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Chocolat / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Chocolat / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Framboise, the old woman from Five Quarters Of An Orange, gave this to a social worker and priest that tried to take Anouk and Rosette from the flat Vianne was renting, on a day when Vianne was out looking for work. They had apparently told Anouk that her mother's tales were sinful, that she and Rosette were being neglected, and that she needed to go with them. Framboise booted them out and made Anouk a strong cup of tea with sugar. She says that anyone with half of brain could see that neither Anouk nor Rosette have been neglected.
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Chocolat / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Chocolat / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite : Reynaud. He preaches about wanting to save the town's citizens from eternal damnation but turns a blind eye when Muscat beats his wife. Armande Voizin calls him out on this. In Peaches for Monsieur le Cure, he gets better about this but has his moments. Vianne later becomes one when cutting magic from the girls' lives. Anouk knows this and becomes resentful.
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Chocolat / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
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Chocolat / int_e6ab61d	type	Magic Realism
Chocolat / int_e6ab61d	comment	Magic Realism: Vianne's chocolate and her ability to guess people's favorites, or Anouk's kangaroo.
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Chocolat / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When the Count De Reynaud and Serge see Vianne and Josephine celebrating with the river people, Reynaud says "something must be done, Serge". Serge takes this seriously and decides to sneak over when everyone's sleeping and set fire to their boats.
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Chocolat / int_efcd7681	comment	Pre-Approved Sermon: The Comte gives this treatment to the priest. He likes to go over his sermons and makes "one or two notes" of suggestions and corrections.
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Chocolat / int_f0fe7e80	comment	But Now I Must Go: Subverted at the end of the film. Originally Vianne packs up and contemplates relocating to another village due to her hereditary tradition of dispensing ancient cacao remedies. Once she sees Josephine and some others pitching in to help with her chocolatery, she decides to stay.
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Chocolat / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: Chocolate porn, lots and lots of chocolate porn. Especially the slow-motion eating sequences.
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Chocolat / int_f275ee5f	comment	Dead Sparks: Yvette and Alphonse suffered from this. Until unrefined cacao nibs helped put the spark back into their marriage.
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Chocolat / int_f6972f9d	type	The Mourning After
Chocolat / int_f6972f9d	comment	The Mourning After: The woman Guillaume is attracted to a woman who lost her husband in the war (a German grenade). No, not that war that was considered recent in the 50s — he was killed on January 12, 1917. His poor wife has been in mourning for 22 years. She does begin dating Guillaume by the end.
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Chocolat / int_f6b2bfb7	comment	Gold Digger: Inverted; Vianne has no interest in marrying her landlord Thierry, but he controls her rent and could keep her family safe. He's the one putting pressure on her and has financial power. When he learns that Roux is Rosette's father, and that "Yanne" is Vianne Rocher, and that she lied to him about everything, he gives her notice to close her shop and move out of the building.
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Chocolat / int_f76842b1	type	The Fundamentalist
Chocolat / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: The Comte de Reynaud is very strict about religion and fanatical about his faith and he wants everybody to behave according to his standards.
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Chocolat / int_f9375414	type	FacePalm
Chocolat / int_f9375414	comment	In The Girl With No Shadow Jean-Loup gives Anouk photographic proof that Zozie is an identity thief and not what she seems to be. Anouk in response tears the photographs up because she won't hear anything bad about Zozie. Cue Face Palm from the audience.
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Chocolat / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
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Chocolat / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Chocolat / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Reynaud in Chocolat. Joanne Harris assures us that he has mellowed since in time for Peaches for Monsieur le Cure.
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Chocolat / int_fd86da63	comment	Crisis of Faith: Comte de Reynaud becomes a better person when he relaxes the more fanatical elements of his faith.
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