Chocolat

Day 45 - 2/14/09 - Movie #43

BEFORE: It's Valentine's Day, so what better choice than a movie about the transforming power of chocolate?

THE PLOT: A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop that shakes up the rigid morality of a small French village.

AFTER: Well, I'm not sold on chocolate being the answer to the problems of everyone in town (sometimes the answer to my problems is BEER, not chocolate...), and a chocolatier's ability to guess everyone's form of chocolate is a little hard to swallow. But Alfred Molina was perfectly cast as the town mayor/villain. Juliette Binoche was a big blank to me, though - she got upstaged by Judi Dench and Lena Olin.

RATING: 4 out of 10 cocoa nibs