Chocolat

This movie is as sweet as it sounds. I watched it about six times, still it´s great, every single time. Johnny Depp (alias Roux) looks as good as he always does, a bit rugh and independent for he is a "pirate" (a gipsy on a boat) with long hair and some teint. And we have beautiful, witty and impulsive Juliette Binoche (alias Vianne) whome I love here.

Vianne and her daughter Anouk (who owns an inivisible kangaroo with a broken leg) travel from place to place, with the northern wind, because Vianne has this restlessness in her blood for her mother was a nomad in south africa. They arrive at this small village somewhere in Frace, where everything is as it always has been, where everybody knows where his/her place is and what rule is expected, what is allowed and what not. Vianne opens  a chocolaterie next to the church right during the forty days of Lent. Nevertheless it happens that the habitants go there from time to time, and then more often. They talk, get help, enjoy the taste. The Compte de Reynaud is quite displeased by this distrubance of the routine and the decay of manners. And the straw that brakes the camle´s back is when Vianne sympathises with the "pirates" that arrive one day, especially with Roux whome she even invites into her Chocolaterie, even though the whole village agrees about the "boycott of immorality", what means not to sell anything to the "rats of the river". I can only warmly recommend this film to you, you will feel light and comfortable afterwards, with the huge appetite for chocolate.