Details

Release year: 2000

Storyline

Single mother Vianne Rocher and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town in the winter of 1959, and open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.

Top credits

Directors

Lasse Hallström

Writers

Cast

Juliette Binoche — Vianne
Johnny Depp — Roux
Judi Dench — Armande Voizin
Alfred Molina — Comte de Reynaud

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Awards

0 wins & 5 nominations

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Did you know

• The village of Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, with its three hundred seventy inhabitants, became part of this movie. Two hundred fifty people from the area were recruited as extras. The population was informed daily about what was going on.

• The scene where Alfred Molina (Comte Paul de Reynaud) eats the window display was shot on his last day of shooting, in case he didn't feel well after eating all the chocolate. He didn't. Along the way, he got a piece stuck in his throat briefly, and we see him lean over and expel it without breaking character.

• As the camera is zooming out on the village, at the end, during the credits, you can see a man walk through the lower half of the square. Director Lasse Hallström wanted to be able to prove that it was the actual village, and not a miniature.