Chocolat: (Chocolat 1)

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At the end of the story the cure wants to revenge Vianne for her “impropriety”, he decides to spoil all her chocolate goods. It’s worth saying, that he followed the Lent, he was eating only some lean food, and of course, he didn’t eat chocolate. So, he creeps to the shop at late night, but when he comes there, the flavour of the chocolate attracts him and he starts eating all that he sees there, and then he falls asleep in that heaps of spoiled chocolate, where he is found by Vianne in the morning.

Vianne also spends a lot of time and effort preparing for the "Grand Festival of Chocolate", to be held on Easter Sunday, with the help of Josephine, who moves in with her after being convinced to leave her abusive husband. The morning the festival is supposed to take place, Reynaud breaks into the shop and vandalizes the window display, but is caught by Vianne before he can reach the gift boxes in the basement. The festival continues with much success. I loved the little French town, Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, that Vianne and her daughter Anouk found themselves in after the carnival was over. She was there to open a little candy shop. She called it La Celeste PralineYoung widow Vianne Roche's mouthwatering bonbons, steaming mugs of liqueur-laced cocoa and flaky cream-filled patisserie don't earn her a warm welcome from the stern prelate of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes. In Francis Reynaud's zeal to enforce strict Lenten vows of self-denial, he regards his sybaritic neighbor with suspicion and disdain. It is Lent, the priest has decreed abstinence, deprivation. Yet, Vianne's shop is a "red-and-gold confection," her window a proliferation of truffles, pralines, candied fruits, hazelnut clusters, candied rose petals, all there to tempt Reynaud's parishioners. He sees it as a disgrace, a degradation of the faith, and eventually preaches against Vianne from his pulpit. gr di cacao ma io ne metto sempre 75 così faccio fuori il pacco (sempre per il principio di cui sopra, dark è dark!) In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and in 2022 was awarded an OBE by the Queen.

Themes of religion, superstition, prejudice towards gypsies, the idea of Home to those who are always on the run etc However, despite her charm, Father Reynaud is set against her and determined not to see any of the good she is doing. She may not be a church goer but she has taught her daughter a great sense of morality - what is good and bad…and by all ways possible she is a person of goodness. The National Youth Ballet staged this marvellous version of CHOCOLAT in 2011, using Rachel Portman’s original music from the film score, and choreographed by the young (and already very talented) Andrew McNicol. We meet the people who live in the village, and those who live on the village river, as a bunch of gypsies stop temporarily to replenish supplies and make repairs to their barges. They too earn the attention and wrath of Père Reynaud, and those who are on his side.The 73rd Academy Awards (2001) Nominees and Winners". Oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

I can see where both sides were coming from, and it made the whole thing uncomfortable. The priest is in the wrong, he sees Vianne as a threat to his congregation, he acts in a way he believes is right - but often frequently doubts his own path. Charles de Lint praised the novel, saying "Harris's prose is an absolute delight" comparing Chocolat to Like Water for Chocolate. [3] Setting [ edit ]

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It was a good story. A struggle between good and evil in a tiny little villiage that did not take well to outsiders.

Additionally: Erik Satie’s Gnossienne is heard in the scene where Viane tells the story of her parents’ meeting. Lastly I wanted to write about magic. Not the popular view, but about the magic of everyday things and the way something quite ordinary can, given the right circumstances, take on extraordinary properties. Vianne’s belief in the supernatural seems dangerous, even sinister, to Reynaud. And yet it is her very human qualities – her understanding and her kindness to others – which make her what she is. She does nothing which could not be achieved by purely ordinary means. Her magic, working as it does through simple pleasures, is accessible to everyone. If she is a witch, as Reynaud believes, then so is anyone else with similar values. We live in a world which is becoming increasingly complicated around us; we are bombarded with mixed messages and impossible targets from the media; like Reynaud we have learned to demonize pleasure and to be afraid of our feelings. Chocolat was my reaction against that; a plea for tolerance of others but also of ourselves, a reminder that to be fallible is both natural and allowed; that self-indulgence isn’t always bad; that testing people to destruction isn’t the way to make them better people.

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as sweet, rich and utterly satisfying as a fine truffle. Dieters beware: Ms. Harris’s lush prose drips with mouth-watering descriptions of cocoa confections that could melt even the most resolute of wills.”— Wall Street Journal Goldbart, Max (November 29, 2022). " 'Chocolat': Miramax TV & Mediawan Forging French-Language TV Series Adaptation Of Johnny Depp Movie". Deadline . Retrieved October 6, 2023. Let me start this review by saying I have never seen the film version of Chocolat. Therefore, I started reading this with no preconceived notions. (Well, no more than usual, anyway.)