Chocolat: (Chocolat 1)

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pagine che si alternano tra avvenimenti e ricordi, smosse da un vento magico, quasi esotico, che sembra dirottare la vita dei personaggi, e sembra quasi voler suggerire una risposta al pindarico quesito:

Let me start this review by saying I have never seen the film version of Chocolat. Therefore, I started reading this with no preconceived notions. (Well, no more than usual, anyway.) There really is something for everyone - chocolate lovers, church goers, mystery, french setting, witchcraft all contained within the antics of a small french village, Lansquenet. Vianne is the main point-of-view character, but Pere Reynaud, the local priest, who has a vendetta against Vianne, gets some chapters from his point of view. I also enjoyed the secondary characters. This story is a beautiful insight into showing, gently, that we fear that which we do not know. Even when we have no reason to feel that way. How “other” can also stir up feelings and emotions, and enable some people to be brave enough to find their voice.Vianne, having come to the town at the Lent, starts to set up a chocolate café there. This, and the fact that she doesn’t go to the church, brings on the hostility of the fanatically devotional cure. But the woman doesn’t pay attention to him. She has in mind to stay here for as much time, as she wants. Naturally feathers are ruffled and a lot of the locals give Vianne a wide berth. However there are some that make it their business to give their opinion on Vianne and her way of living. Mainly the Priest and some of his more devout believers. At the end of the story the cure wants to revenge Vianne for her “impropriety”, he decides to spoil all her chocolate goods. It’s worth saying, that he followed the Lent, he was eating only some lean food, and of course, he didn’t eat chocolate. So, he creeps to the shop at late night, but when he comes there, the flavour of the chocolate attracts him and he starts eating all that he sees there, and then he falls asleep in that heaps of spoiled chocolate, where he is found by Vianne in the morning.

Additionally: Erik Satie’s Gnossienne is heard in the scene where Viane tells the story of her parents’ meeting. If Vianne's chocolaterie is to survive, it will take kindness, courage and a little bit of magic... Vianne Rocher and her daughter Anouk have just moved to a small town and opened up a chocolate shop on the first week of Lent in a strong Catholic community.

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Mitchell, Elvis (2000-12-15). "FILM REVIEW; Candy Power Comes to Town". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved 2022-12-04. During the whole story Vianne is full of predictions, she inherited the magic skills from her mother, she sees things that are the deep secrets of other people, for example, the cure has the father, who is in coma for a long time, and Vianne sees Reynaud by the bed of his father, etc. Update this section! The magic is understated, but it is a bigger deal in the book than the film. The main character knows what each character's favorite chocolates or sweets are as soon as she meets them, because she can read their thoughts. Tarot cards play a role, although they may or may not actually reveal the future. I didn’t particularly like either of the main characters and there was so much pettiness that is just wasn’t enjoyable and i found myself rushing just to finish. Yet, I could not dislike this book. It was strangely addicting. Reading it was like eating a confection you know is not very good when compared with something of a higher calibre, but you keep mindlessly eating it anyway though you're not sure why.

Père Reynaud pays Vianne a visit: it is Sunday, and he didn’t see Vianne or her daughter at church. Vianne explains, “We don’t attend, you know.” When the priest learns that Vianne is unmarried, his outrage turns to horror. Joanne Harris is an Anglo-French author, whose books include fourteen novels, two cookbooks and many short stories. Her work is extremely diverse, covering aspects of magic realism, suspense, historical fiction, mythology and fantasy. She has also written a DR WHO novella for the BBC, has scripted guest episodes for the game ZOMBIES, RUN!, and is currently engaged in a number of musical theatre projects as well as developing an original drama for television. In 2000, her 1999 novel CHOCOLAT was adapted to the screen, starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp. She is an honorary Fellow of St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and in 2022 was awarded an OBE by the Queen.The three gypsies that stay behind to assist with the clean up after attending Armande's birthday fête. Update this section! The retired schoolmaster of Lansquenet and unabashed animal lover, he is an old bachelor and is lovingly devoted to his equally ancient pet dog, Charly. Curé Francis frequently reproaches Guillaume for lavishing Charly with love and attention reasoning that animals have no souls and since Charly’s death is already certain because of his age and tumor the best thing for Charly would be to put him down. Charly Vianne is a magnet for the town’s misfits… Vianne gives them chocolate, but also nudges their lives in the right direction… Clearly, chocolate stands for human kindness and consolation. … Jaunty, hopeful and endearing.”— The Guardian(UK) The only problem is that her chocolaterie is set up directly across the road from, and in full view of, the village Church. And she opens her store at the beginning of Lent. A time of penitence and self denial.