Chocolat is a
2000 film based on the novel
of the same name by
Joanne Harris, directed by
Lasse Hallström. 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.
The film was shot in the village of
Flavigny-sur-Ozerain in
Burgundy,
France, and on the Rue De L'ancienne Poste in Beynac on the Dordogne River in
Dordogne, France. The river scenes were filmed at
Fonthill Lake at
Fonthill Bishop in
Wiltshire,
England and interior scenes at
Shepperton Studios,
Surrey, England.
The film was nominated for Academy Awards, BAFTAs, and Golden Globes. It won a SAG Award.
