Merci Pour le Chocolat
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Claude Chabrol
Antoinette Martin
Sybille Blanc
Aline Jaussi
Isabelle Huppert
Ricardo Castro
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A mystery set in the environs of Lausanne concerning several plots which wind their way through the elegant homesteads of a couple of well-heeled French-Swiss denizens. Mika is the couture-attired, oh-so-perfect head of Muller Chocolates--a company that manufactures Swiss chocolates. Andre is her suave, concert pianist husband whose first wife died years ago in a mysterious car accident. When Jeanne, a beautiful young woman, enters the home of Mika and Andre, raising questions about her possible relationship to the family, tensions mount, alliances shift, and all the while, Mika prepares and faithfully serves her special recipe for hot chocolate each evening.
Director
Claude Chabrol
Cast
Antoinette Martin
Sybille Blanc
Aline Jaussi
Isabelle Huppert
Ricardo Castro
Rodolphe Pauly
Michel Moulin
Brigitte Catillon
Jaqueline Burnarnd
Jean-marie Daunas
Michel Robin
Lydia Andrei
Veronique Alain
Mathieu Simonet
Nathalie Gaubicher
Isolde Barth
Dorotea Brandin
Rodolphe Ittig
Anthony Glur
Francois Germond
Alberto Socorsi
Catherine Epars
Anna Mouglalis
James Hauduroy
Jacques Dutronc
Crew
Charlotte Armstrong
Renato Berta
Max Buhler
Aurore Chabrol
Claude Chabrol
Matthieu Chabrol
Frederic Chopin
Cecile Cotten
David Crenn
Yvon Crenn
Paul De Fisser
Claude Debussy
Herve Dumont
Jean-pierre Duret
Caroline Eliacheff
Monique Fardoulis
Michel Filippi
Sonia Geneux
Caroline Gut
Marin Karmitz
Bruno Langiano
Fran Liszt
Francine Lusser
Gustav Mahler
Cecile Maistre
Mischa Massatsch
Daniel Maurer
Andre Naudin
Thi Loan Nguyen
Ivan Niclass
Laurent Petitgirard
Jean-louis Porchet
Olivier Rossignal
Gérard Ruey
Franz Schubert
Alexander Scriabin
+lisabeth Tavernier
Michel Thiriet
Claude Villand
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Completed shooting April 21, 2000.
Released in United States Summer July 31, 2002
Released in United States August 16, 2002 (Los Angeles)
Released in United States on Video April 22, 2003
Released in United States 2000 (Shown at Montreal World Film Festival (in competition) August 24 - September 4, 2000.)
Released in United States 2000 (Shown at Venice International Film Festival (out of competition) August 30 - September 9, 2000.)
Released in United States 2001 (Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Main Programme) January 24 - February 4, 2001.)
Winner of Best Actress (Isabelle Huppert) at the 2000 Montreal World Film Festival.
Released in United States Summer July 31, 2002
Released in United States August 16, 2002
Released in United States on Video April 22, 2003
Released in United States 2000
Released in United States 2001
Shown at Montreal World Film Festival (in competition) August 24 - September 4, 2000.
Shown at Venice International Film Festival (out of competition) August 30 - September 9, 2000.
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (Main Programme) January 24 - February 4, 2001.
Began shooting March 6, 2000.
