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"In the winter of 1959, a clever wind leads Juliette Binoche and her daughter to a tranquil French village where she opens a small chocolaterie."--Sholem Stein

Chocolat, directed by Lasse Hallström, is a 2000film based on the novel Chocolat by Joanne Harris.

Adapted by screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs, Chocolat tells the story of a young mother, played by Juliette Binoche, who arrives at the fictional, repressed French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes with her six-year-old daughter and opens La Chocolaterie Maya, a small chocolaterie.

Her chocolate quickly begins to change the lives of the townspeople.

Plot

Vianne Rocher (Juliette Binoche), an expert chocolatier and her six-year-old daughter Anouk (Victoire Thivisol), drift across Europe following the north wind.

In 1959, they travel to a quiet French village th