CHOCOLAT (2000)

Chocolat (French pronunciation: [ʃɔkɔla]) is a 2000 British/American romance film based on the novel of the same name by Joanne Harris, and was directed by Lasse Hallström*. Adapted by screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs, Chocolat tells the story of a young mother, played by Juliette Binoche, who arrives at the fictional, repressed French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes with her six-year-old daughter and opens La Chocolaterie Maya, a small chocolaterie. Her chocolate quickly begins to change the lives of the townspeople.

The film was shot in the village of Flavigny-sur-Ozerain in Burgundy, France, and on the Rue De L'ancienne Poste in Beynac-et-Cazenac on the Dordogne River in Dordogne, France. The river scenes were filmed at Fonthill Lake at Fonthill Bishop in Wiltshire, England and interior scenes at Shepperton Studios, Surrey, England.

Chocolat was nominated for 5 Academy Awards, 8 BAFTAs, and 4 Golden Globes. It won a Screen Actors Guild Award.



CAST
Juliette Binoche as Vianne Rocher
Johnny Depp as Roux
Judi Dench as Armande Voizin
Alfred Molina as Comte de Reynaud
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NOMINATED
Academy Awards:
Best Actress (Juliette Binoche)
Best Picture
Best Original Music (Rachel Portman)
Best Screenplay - Adapted (Robert Nelson Jacobs)
Best Supporting Actress (Judi Dench)

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* Films directed by Lasse Hallström

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