Mika, heiress to a Swiss chocolate company, is married to celebrated pianist André and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his tenth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned she was almost switched with Guillaume at birth.
Acting
Huppert's micro-expressions could freeze fire
Direction
Chabrol's final masterpiece of bourgeois rot
Production
That house — every chocolate wrapper is a threat
Director
Claude Chabrol
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chabrol called this his 'last Hitchcockian' film — the chocolate factory setting is his own childhood, his stepfather owned one.
The title 'Merci pour le chocolat' references a 1950s French pop song about polite poison — the entire film is that irony in cinematic form.
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