Before anyone starts slinging the “R” word around, this is not about that. So get your pointed little cursor off of the Hide Button and have a read.
The film Chocolat begins in a church…
Opening lines from the film “Chocolat”
Once upon a time, there was a quiet little village in the French countryside, whose people believed in Tranquilité – Tranquility. If you lived in this village, you understood what was expected of you. You knew your place in the scheme of things. And if you happened to forget, someone would help remind you. In this village, if you saw something you weren’t supposed to see, you learned to look the other way. If perchance your hopes had been disappointed, you learned never to ask for more. So through good times and bad, famine and feast, the villagers held fast to their traditions. Until, one winter day, a sly wind blew in from the North…
I’m not going to spoil it in case you haven’t had the pleasure, but I will include some of the themes of this fine piece of film making directed by Lasse Hallström and written by Joanne Harris (novel) and Robert Nelson Jacobs (screenplay).