Chocolat (2000)

Tatyana Yassukovich: Storyteller

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Storyteller : [voice over]  Once upon a time, there was a quiet little village in the French countryside, whose people believed in Tranquilité - Tranquility.

  Storyteller : [voice over continues as the Sunday morning congregation sings]  If you lived in this village, you understood what was expected of you. You knew your place in the scheme of things. And if you happened to forget, someone would help remind you.

  Pere Henri : [as a wife kicks her sleeping husband in the pew]  The season of Lent is upon us. This is of course a time of abstinence. Hopefully also it's a time of reflection. Above all let this be for us a time... a time of sincere penitence. It is a time to stand up and be counted...

  Storyteller : [voice over]  In this village, if you saw something you weren't supposed to see, you learned to look the other way. If perchance your hopes had been disappointed, you learned never to ask for more. So, through good times and bad, famine and feast, the villagers held fast to their traditions. Until, one winter day, a sly wind blew in from the North...

• Storyteller : [voice over]  But still the clever north wind was not satisfied. It spoke to Vianne of towns yet to be visited, friends in need yet to be discovered, battles yet to be fought...

  [Vianne throws her mother's ashes to the wind] 

  Storyteller : [voice over]  ... by someone else, next time.

• [last lines] 

  Storyteller : [voice over]  As for Badouff, his leg miraculously healed, and he hopped off in search of new adventures. I didn't miss him.

• Storyteller : [voice over]  Even the Comte de Reynaud felt strangely... released. Although it would take another six months for him to work up the courage to ask Caroline out to dinner.