![]() ![]() Let me preface this by saying I enjoy Molina in almost everything and the fact that he has no Oscar nominations is criminal That being said, his character Reynaud brings the film to a screeching halt each time he appears, which is frequently. ![]() He was still be three years away from superstardom Pirates of the Caribbean, but the breadcrumbs are there.Īnd finally there's. He plays the guitar far more often than you would expect and does little more than be pretty and kind to children. Johnny Depp plays a dreamy long-haired river pirate with an Irish accent by-way-of Florida. Nathaniel tells us that Judi Dench and Lena Olin get plenty of discussion time in next week's Smackdown so let's skip passed them for now. Her voice stays a slight level above a whisper and sets the audience at ease whenever she is on screen, which is quite often. Vianne is a lovely woman who treats people with kindness and never judges, and Binoche underplays the part to perfection. She doesn’t do much shouting or grand proclamations, and she doesn’t skew to overly quirky or off-the-wall. The French actress is such a unique talent and fine dramatic actress that you can forget how much of a luminous movie-star presence she can be. Even when things get dark, a humorous tone takes over and brightens up the shadows.īinochete is a warm delight. Hallstrom and screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs could have gone deeper on any number of topics they address but they fall well short of making any impact. A subplot involving domestic abuse ends with a bonk on the head with a frying pan, and laughter. Dench’s character is estranged from her daughter (Carrie Anne Moss), but her relationship with her grandson bridges that gap in little time. But, Vianne’s charm and hospitality ingrain her to the townspeople. The mayor is the main person who wants to get rid of Binoche’s Vianne, and that is mostly through political and societal pressure. The film is presented as a light-hearted comedy with relatively low stakes. She runs afoul of the local mayor (Alfred Molina) while befriending her landlady (Judi Dench), an abused woman (Lena Olin) and a band of river nomads led by Johnny Depp. The film stars Juliette Binoche as a wandering chocolatier who lands in a conservative religious French village to open up a chocolate shop, right at the beginning of Lent. But is it the terrible, no-good, very bad film its reputation has made it out to be? The short answer is no, but the long answer is a bit more nuanced. The film’s legacy is more entrenched in controversy as its nominations are attributed to shameless Oscar campaigning by Miramax and Harvey Weinstein. Those four films are unassailable in this lineup, but then there’s the fifth film: Lasse Hallstrom’s romantic dramedy Chocolat. The 2000 Best Picture lineup features a blockbuster swords-and-sandals crowd-pleaser, a star vehicle about corporate evil, an ensemble on the war on drugs, and an epic martial arts foreign language film. In preparation for the next Smackdown Team Experience is traveling back to 2000.
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