Merci pour le Chocolat Movie Review 2000

This is Huppert's movie all the way. She's Mika Muller, a chocolate company manager in Switzerland who has just re-married widowed concert pianist Andre (Dutronc) after 18 years. In the meantime, Andre married and had son Guillaume (Pauly), who was nearly switched at birth for Jeanne (Mouglalis), an 18-year-old with musical talent (unlike Guillaume). Jeanne impulsively decides to meet Andre and they bond over music, which causes the polite but pathologically jealous Mika to pour hot chocolate and plot. Based on the novel "The Chocolate Cobweb" by Charlotte Armstrong. French with subtitles.

Distribution

First Run Features, The Film Center Building, 630 Ninth Ave., Ste. 1213, New York, NY 10036, Phone: (212)243-0600, Toll-free: 800-229-8575, Fax: (212)989-7649, Email: info@firstrunfeatures.com, URL: http://www.firstrunfeatures.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 99 minutes.
Originally from French, Swiss.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Stepparents, Homicide, Jealousy, Marriage, Psycho-Thriller

Screenplay

Claude Chabrol, Caroline Eliacheff

Cast

Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis, Rodolphe Pauly, Michel Robin, Brigitte Catillon, Mathieu Simonet

Cinematography

Renato Berta

Director

Claude Chabrol

Music

Matthieu Chabrol

Other

Jean-Pierre Duret, Monique Fardoulis, Yvan Niclass, Elisabeth Tavernier

Producer

Marin Karmitz, MK2, France 2 Cinema, YMC Productions, First Run Features, Empire Pictures