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CONSENSUS
Boasting a masterful performance by Huppert, Merci Pour Le Chocolat is a suspenseful psychological thriller.
CAST & CREW
Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis
Directed by Claude Chabrol
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SYNOPSIS
Lausanne, Switzerland, the present. Marie-Claire 'Mika' Muller (Isabelle Huppert), managing director of a chocolate company, is remarrying André (Jacques Dutronc), the concert pianist to whom she was briefly married 18 years before. more...
MPAA RATING
Not Rated
RUNTIME
1 hour, 39 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jul 31, 2002
Video: Apr 22, 2003
RELEASE COMPANY
First Run Features
GENRE
Foreign Films, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Family Life, France, Composers
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Merci Pour le Chocolat Site
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 "Director Claude Chabrol has become the master of innuendo. It is not what you see, it is what you think you see."
-- The Wolf, IOFILM.CO.UK
"A gripping chamber thriller..."
-- Scott Tobias, ONION AV CLUB
"Huppert, for her part, is magnificent, an enigmatic echo of her twisted musician in Michael Haneke's horribly grandiloquent The Piano Teacher."
-- Ella Taylor, L.A. WEEKLY
 "A non-mystery mystery."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"Huppert's show to steal and she makes a meal of it, channeling Kathy Baker's creepy turn as the repressed mother on Boston Public just as much as 8 Women's Augustine."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
"Huppert’s superbly controlled display of murderous vulnerability ensures that malice has a very human face."
-- David Parkinson, EMPIRE MAGAZINE [UK]
"The film flat lines when it should peak and is more missed opportunity and trifle than dark, decadent truffle."
-- Paula Nechak, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"This is not Chabrol's best, but even his lesser works outshine the best some directors can offer."
-- Jean Lowerison, SAN DIEGO METROPOLITAN
"The film is a masterpiece of nuance and characterization, marred only by an inexplicable, utterly distracting blunder at the very end."
-- Andy Klein, NEW TIMES
"A witty and suspenseful tone poem with a magnetic Isabelle Huppert as a perverse, central character."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
"Weighty and ponderous but every bit as filling as the treat of the title."
-- Harry Guerin, RTE INTERACTIVE (DUBLIN, IRELAND)
"An entertaining, if ultimately minor, thriller."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"The big finish is a bit like getting all excited about a chocolate eclair and then biting into it and finding the filling missing."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
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"French cinema's definitive Comeback Kid has done it again."
-- Keith Reader, SIGHT AND SOUND
"Isabelle Huppert excels as the enigmatic Mika and Anna Mouglalis is a stunning new young talent in one of Chabrol's most intense psychological mysteries."
-- George Perry, BBCI FILMS
"Hitch would enjoy the way Chabrol plays with the audience (including the expertly interwoven Lizt requiem)"
-- John A. Nesbit, CULTUREDOSE.NET
"It's enough to watch Huppert scheming, with her small, intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain, and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that Chabrol spins."
-- Moira MacDonald, SEATTLE TIMES
"an original and highly cerebral examination of the psychopathic mind"
-- Arthur Lazere, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
"Like being invited to a classy dinner soiree and not knowing anyone. You leave the same way you came -- a few tasty morsels under your belt, but no new friends."
-- Laura Kelly, SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL
"Claude Chabrol has here a thriller without thrills, but that's okay."
-- Jeremy Heilman, MOVIEMARTYR.COM
"Claude Chabrol's camera has a way of gently swaying back and forth as it cradles its characters, veiling tension beneath otherwise tender movements."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Merci pour le movie."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"Every potential twist is telegraphed well in advance, every performance respectably muted; the movie itself seems to have been made under the influence of Rohypnol."
-- Mike D'Angelo, TIME OUT NEW YORK
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FRESH 100%
Avg. Rating: 7.9/10 |
"A tasty appetizer that leaves you wanting more."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"An impeccable study in perversity."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"In his 48th film of his 44-year career, New Wave pioneer Chabrol remains at the height of his powers."
-- Kevin Thomas, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"An elegant, exquisitely modulated psychological thriller."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"This is one of Mr. Chabrol’s subtlest works, but also one of his most uncanny."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"This masterfully calibrated psychological thriller thrives on its taut performances and creepy atmosphere even if the screenplay falls somewhat short."
-- Michael Rechtshaffen, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Suspend your disbelief here and now, or you'll be shaking your head all the way to the credits."
-- Janice Page, BOSTON GLOBE
"The picture belongs to Ms. Mouglalis, whose adorable warmth doesn't lessen her instinct to exploit."
-- Elvis Mitchell, NEW YORK TIMES
"Chabrol ratchets up such a level of suspense -- and Huppert gives such a mesmerizingly deadpan performance -- that Merci Pour le Chocolat turns out to be as irresistible as a piece of dark chocolate."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
"A sun-drenched masterpiece, part parlor game, part psychological case study, part droll social satire."
-- Glenn Lovell, SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS
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"Chabrol has taken promising material for a black comedy and turned it instead into a somber chamber drama."
-- Kevin Courrier, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "Merci Pour le Chocolat" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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