31 Like what I said about "Fried Green Tomatoes", the movie "Chocolat" is such condescending "liberal" propaganda. The acting is alright (Molina, Binoche, Depp), but the politics of it are just so on the nose. "Christians bad, Pagans good", "Men bad, women good", "hedonism good, self-control bad", etc. (en.wikipedia.org) posted 2 years ago by bamboozler1 2 years ago by bamboozler1 +33 / -2 36 comments share 36 comments share save hide report block hide replies
I mean, true, in that it is set in France, and Binoche is French, but the movie isn’t. It’s American. There’s barely a word of actual French in it.
Which is amusing.
Characters are French, played in the least French way possible. It’s like… Caricature level. Which, I suspect, is partly why I disliked it so…
"We do not even have a language! Just a stoopid accent!"
"She's right. She's right! We all talk like Maurice Chevalier!"