Merci Pour le Chocolat

– A mystery set in the environs of Lausanne concerning several plots which wind their way through the ..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
6.70 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 41 Minutes
Release Year:
2000
Original Name:
Merci pour le chocolat
Merci pour le Chocolat (2000) - Also known as Merci pour le chocolat

A mystery set in the environs of Lausanne concerning several plots which wind their way through the elegant homesteads of a couple of well-heeled French-Swiss denizens. Mika is the couture-attired, oh-so-perfect head of Muller Chocolates--a company that manufactures Swiss chocolates. Andre is her suave, concert pianist husband whose first wife died years ago in a mysterious car accident. When Jeanne, a beautiful young woman, enters the home of Mika and Andre, raising questions about her possible relationship to the family, tensions mount, alliances shift, and all the while, Mika prepares and faithfully serves her special recipe for hot chocolate each evening.

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Merci pour le Chocolat (2000) - Trailer

Release Date:

25 Oct 2000

Language:

French

MPAA Content-Rating:
Not Rated

Director:

Claude Chabrol

Writer:

Caroline Eliacheff (scenario), Claude Chabrol (scenario), Caroline Eliacheff (dialogue), Claude Chabrol (dialogue), Charlotte Armstrong (novel)

Main Actors:

Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis, Rodolphe Pauly

Plot:

In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told to the prominent pianist André Polonski that she would be his daughter. André has just remarried his first wife, the heiress of a Swiss chocolate factory Marie-Claire "Mika" Muller and they live in Lausanne with André's son Guillaume Polonski. Out of the blue, Jeanne visits André and he offers to give piano classes to help her in her examination. Jeanne becomes closer to André and sooner she discovers that Mika might be drugging her stepson with Rohypnol. Further, she might have killed his second wife Lisbeth.

Awards:

4 wins & 2 nominations.

Production:

MK2

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
6.7/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
84%
Metacritic:
82%