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Chocolat

skylark from , 8th April, 2009

This was a somewhat disjointed film ! It was almost as if there was a reel missing..a character appears from nowhere & causes havoc...the main character wishes to visit her old home when she is an adult but we never find out if she gets there...

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5 out of 5 people found the following review helpful:

confusing

A Customer from Cambridge, 22nd April, 2009

Kept watching this as it seemed full of promise but we were left sitting in bemused silence at the end. I agree with the above review, it felt as if they had missed out the vital bits of plot !

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

CHOCOLAT

A Customer from King's Lynn, 8th January, 2010

ALRIGHT IF YOU LIKE FRENCH SPEAKING FLIMS

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

utterly beautiful film-making

A Customer from Edinburgh, 13th November, 2009

This is a beautiful film that relies on nothing but the camera to dignify it's portrayal of an island-like existence of a young French family in remote Africa. I felt like I was reading a novel from one of the best writers in the world, it was so elegant. It reminded me of another film and story I adore, also from one of the best writers in the world, E.M Forster - A Passage to India - except minus the alleged crime and all the drama, courtroom and otherwise, that went with it. This film relies on the camera to simplify and record which brings silence, beauty and authenticity - and it's not boring at all nor is it posturing in any sense - it's just lovely and I fell in love with it. You won't like it if you like drama-in-your-face style film-making.

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Film making as it should be.

sailonby from , 28th February, 2010

This is an excellently directed film with excellent photography. If your taste is for Hollywood, you won't like it, because it tells the story visually rather than with dialogue. That's the difference between Hollywood and Continental film-making. It's first-class. You make up your own mind.

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2 out of 2 people found the following review helpful:

Duller than dishwater

TimBeckerley from , 3rd November, 2009

With occasional lapses into decent cinemaphotography, everything else about this film was dull and mediocre. I'm not a thrill-a-minute junkie but the French just seem to have no idea how to tell a story and keep it interesting and pacy. It appeared to start with an intriguing premise but went absolutely nowhere. It was so open-ended, I'm loathe to use the word 'end' in this sentence. After watching this, perhaps it's about time we renewed hostilities with the French just for producing this kind of inane rubbish.

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