Merci pour le chocolat (2000)
Country: FR/SW
Technical: col 101m
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis
Synopsis:
A young piano student meets and is helped by a world-class player who may just be her biological father; he meanwhile has remarried with the psychotic head of a chocolate firm, actually responsible for engineering his former wife's death.
Review:
Chabrol returns to his favourite theme of murder in the family, and to something like the form of his best work. The play of devious intent beneath a veneer of bourgeois 'mondanité' is sketched as delicately as ever, but the film's closure is abrupt and leaves questions unanswered.
Country: FR/SW
Technical: col 101m
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis
Synopsis:
A young piano student meets and is helped by a world-class player who may just be her biological father; he meanwhile has remarried with the psychotic head of a chocolate firm, actually responsible for engineering his former wife's death.
Review:
Chabrol returns to his favourite theme of murder in the family, and to something like the form of his best work. The play of devious intent beneath a veneer of bourgeois 'mondanité' is sketched as delicately as ever, but the film's closure is abrupt and leaves questions unanswered.
Country: FR/SW
Technical: col 101m
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis
Synopsis:
A young piano student meets and is helped by a world-class player who may just be her biological father; he meanwhile has remarried with the psychotic head of a chocolate firm, actually responsible for engineering his former wife's death.
Review:
Chabrol returns to his favourite theme of murder in the family, and to something like the form of his best work. The play of devious intent beneath a veneer of bourgeois 'mondanité' is sketched as delicately as ever, but the film's closure is abrupt and leaves questions unanswered.