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‘Chocolat’ movie review

The setting is a sleepy French village around 1960. Everything was nice and neat and orderly. The town is run by a benevolent despot of a mayor (Alfred Molina), who also takes attendance as the head usher at the Catholic church every Sunday. His wife is always traveling abroad.

He's like a fussy old Puritan, insisting that everything be decent and orderly, and scared to death that someone, somewhere, might be having fun.

Enter Juliette Binochet, and her daughter, blown in by the North Wind. She opens a chocolate store, just as Lent is beginning. The poor residents act like they've never seen a piece of candy in their lives. They are told to avoid the sinful enticements of this vagabond woman with her bastard child....

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