MERCI POUR LE CHOCOLAT
(NIGHTCAP)
dir. Claude Chabrol, 2000
101 mins. France
In French with English subtitles.
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A slow-burning familial-suspense thriller starring Isabelle Huppert as Mika, an heiress to a chocolate factory, who has just re-married her first husband, piano virtuoso, André Polonski. MERCI POUR LE CHOCOLAT (AKA, “NIGHTCAP”) is an atmospheric, dense, dark comedy of veneer and temperament, embedded with Chabrol's usual themes of traumas, secrets, and lies, leveled with a formalist rigor and a delicate balance of mood.