It sometimes is not wise to view a movie after hearing all the raves about how great it is, ones expectations are rarely filled.
A great cast, particularly Judi Dench, do their best to lift this confection from every day to gourmet. It often seems that any movie where the story is told largely through voice-over manages somehow to miss the mark. Chocolat is such a movie in my opinion. It is entertaining, but manages to leave a lot of unanswered questions. Maybe I asked too much of what is essentially a fairytale, but even fairy tales don't perform such sudden transformations of characters as occur in this movie. Instead of a feeling good when it was all over, my reaction was mainly that it was too much too sweet.
Charming, picturesque but on the whole just a lot of froth.
A great cast, particularly Judi Dench, do their best to lift this confection from every day to gourmet. It often seems that any movie where the story is told largely through voice-over manages somehow to miss the mark. Chocolat is such a movie in my opinion. It is entertaining, but manages to leave a lot of unanswered questions. Maybe I asked too much of what is essentially a fairytale, but even fairy tales don't perform such sudden transformations of characters as occur in this movie. Instead of a feeling good when it was all over, my reaction was mainly that it was too much too sweet.
Charming, picturesque but on the whole just a lot of froth.