Merci pour le chocolat (2000)





In Lausanne, aspiring pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel, and his mother. Jeanne learns that a nurse had mistakenly informed prominent pianist André Polonski that she was his daughter when she was born. André has recently remarried his first wife, the heiress of a Swiss chocolate factory, Marie-Claire "Mika" Muller. They live in Lausanne with André's son Guillaume Polonski. Suddenly, Jeanne visits André and he offers to give her piano lessons to prepare for her examination. As she grows closer to André, Jeanne discovers that Mika may be drugging her stepson with Rohypnol and may have killed her second wife Lisbeth.


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Reviews

Richard Combs, Merci pour le chocolat, in: Filmcomment, nr. 4 (July/August), 2002 pp. 74


Merci pour le chocolat
France / Switzerland 2000

Directed by

Cast
Mathieu Simonet

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Year: 2000
Country: France
Switzerland
Language: French
 
IMDb: 0232083