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Chocolat
UNITED STATES · 2000

Chocolat

Lasse Hallström
religious repression nonconformity single motherhood small-town prejudice culinary tradition
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Synopsis

In the winter of 1959, a single mother and her young daughter arrive in a rural French town, where they open an unusual chocolate shop that disrupts the moral fiber of the strictly Catholic townsfolk and mayor.

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