![]() ![]() The art direction is also good, very suggestive and definitely is important to the film overall. And is up to the viewer to discover what these meanings are. The characters which appears in the film have special kind of personality and a subtle meaning in them as well. The way the city reacts is also very curious. Very interesting, and it's definitely a film to be appreciated. The chocolat itself represented some kind of a freedom and liberation of the repressed side of the persons. And to the woman depressed, scarred by life,with bitter personality, she then offered spicy chocolate. For example, for the boy with a spicy personality, bitter chocolate she offered. The plot is indeed very good, and despite being simple at a first sight it have various layers and subtle symbolism, specifically in the 'chocolate' types. If you’re an incurable romantic, this is the place to celebrate your nuptials in fine style.Chocolat is a good film. Reynaud’s red-silk walled dining room is Brympton’s State Dining Room. Today occasionally hired out as a location for filming ( Brympton House is also featured in 1995 historical drama Restoration, with Robert Downey Jr, as well as in several TV productions), or a hospitality event, it remains essentially a private residence. For a few years during World War II, Brympton was a boys' school, before being reclaimed by its owners as a private house. The house has no overall architectural style, having grown and been extensively added to since its beginnings in the 13th century. It’s Brympton House in Brympton D’Evercy. In Yeovil, Somerset, is the delicious interior of Reynaud’s home. The hall is situated in Barra Hall Park, a 20-acre formal park on Freemans Lane, Hayes, West London, seen in Bend It Like Beckham. Originally a manor house, Barra did indeed become the area’s town hall in the 1920s, and is now used as a children’s centre. The Fonthill Arch, just past the Riverbarn, would have been the gatehouse and entrance to the different mansions and abbey, and is believed to be the work of original Palladian architect, Inigo Jones.īarra Hall in Hayes, West London, supplied the interior of the town hall. An immense house built on a ludicrous scale in the wildly popular Gothic Revival style by eccentric writer William Beckford Junior, the whole extravagant structure collapsed overnight, leaving only a tiny fragment (sadly, not accessible to the public). ![]() The riverside, where the despised ‘river rats’ led by Roux ( Johnny Depp) moor their flotilla of little boats, is the mile-long Fonthill Lake, on the Fonthill Estate in Fonthill Bishop, near Salisbury, Wiltshire.Ĭovering over 9,000 acres of outstanding beauty, the Estate has a fascinating history and a series of grand country mansions have been built over the centuries, including the legendary Fonthill Abbey, one of Britain’s most famous ‘lost’ houses. The village is pretty much as it’s seen on screen, although the glum statue of the mayor’s forebear was added for the production.īut if you’re in the UK, you can still enjoy some of the film’s Gallic charm. The enticingly quaint riverside village of village of ‘Lansquenet’ is Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, about 30 miles northwest of Dijon in Burgundy, France. The film sidesteps any notions of anti-clericalism by turning her nemesis from the novel’s priest into the puritanical Mayor Reynaud ( Alfred Molina). ![]() She’s brought into conflict with local tradition when she begins to awaken villagers’ passions by flagrantly opening a chocolaterie during the fast of Lent. Lasse Hallström’s adaptation of the Joanne Harris novel has the mysterious red-cloaked Vianne Rocher ( Juliette Binoche) and her daughter Anouk ( Victoire Thivisol) blowing into town with the north wind. ![]()
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