Chocolat (Chocolate, as translated in some Spanish-speaking countries) is a 2000 film directed porLasse Hallstrom and starring Juliette Binoche.

It is a coproduction in the UK and the U.S., based on the novel of the same name by Joanne Harris. To prepare for his role, Juliette Binoche spent several days at a tearoom in Paris, learning to make chocolate candy. The film tells the story of a single woman, Vianne Rocher (Juliete Binoche) and her daughter, who come to Lansquenet, a small French village, in the winter of 1959. Vianne The nomadic life and its indifference to shake the foundations of Catholicism of the largely conservative and pious village society whose inhabitants, moralists and repressed, live appearances and reject everything that, for new or unknown, enters their lives.