Reynaud’s red-silk walled dining room is Brympton’s State Dining Room.
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Today occasionally hired out as a location for filming ( Brympton House is also featured in 1995 historical drama Restoration, with Robert Downey Jr, as well as in several TV productions), or a hospitality event, it remains essentially a private residence. Drama Romance A French woman and her young daughter open up a chocolate shop in a small remote village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community.
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The movie is like sex for the eyes - its ravishing in a way. For a few years during World War II, Brympton was a boys' school, before being reclaimed by its owners as a private house. Watching Claire Denis Chocolat, you feel as if your senses have been quickened, reawakened. The house has no overall architectural style, having grown and been extensively added to since its beginnings in the 13th century. It’s Brympton House in Brympton D’Evercy.
In Yeovil, Somerset, is the delicious interior of Reynaud’s home.
The hall is situated in Barra Hall Park, a 20-acre formal park on Freemans Lane, Hayes, West London, seen in Bend It Like Beckham. Originally a manor house, Barra did indeed become the area’s town hall in the 1920s, and is now used as a children’s centre. The Fonthill Arch, just past the Riverbarn, would have been the gatehouse and entrance to the different mansions and abbey, and is believed to be the work of original Palladian architect, Inigo Jones.īarra Hall in Hayes, West London, supplied the interior of the town hall. Any movie built on the premise that chocolate can cure mental illness, restore marital passion, unite feuding relatives, assuage anger, defeat oppression, inspire art and get you a date with. She soon realizes old age is not as whimsical as she thought. An immense house built on a ludicrous scale in the wildly popular Gothic Revival style by eccentric writer William Beckford Junior, the whole extravagant structure collapsed overnight, leaving only a tiny fragment (sadly, not accessible to the public). A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. When Mackenzie is struck by lightning at Coachella, she wakes up as the seventy-year-old Rita.
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The riverside, where the despised ‘river rats’ led by Roux ( Johnny Depp) moor their flotilla of little boats, is the mile-long Fonthill Lake, on the Fonthill Estate in Fonthill Bishop, near Salisbury, Wiltshire.Ĭovering over 9,000 acres of outstanding beauty, the Estate has a fascinating history and a series of grand country mansions have been built over the centuries, including the legendary Fonthill Abbey, one of Britain’s most famous ‘lost’ houses. The village is pretty much as it’s seen on screen, although the glum statue of the mayor’s forebear was added for the production.īut if you’re in the UK, you can still enjoy some of the film’s Gallic charm. The enticingly quaint riverside village of village of ‘Lansquenet’ is Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, about 30 miles northwest of Dijon in Burgundy, France. The film sidesteps any notions of anti-clericalism by turning her nemesis from the novel’s priest into the puritanical Mayor Reynaud ( Alfred Molina). She’s brought into conflict with local tradition when she begins to awaken villagers’ passions by flagrantly opening a chocolaterie during the fast of Lent. As such, in real life the Delvaux Circus where much of the film takes place never existed, Chocolat didn't start his clown career with Foottit in France but with British clown Tony Grice in Spain, he didn't transition from being a "circus freak" to a clown but from being a servant, he never went to prison, Foottit isn't the one who came up with the idea to pair them, Marie Hecquet was neither a widow nor a nurse and was in a relationship with Chocolat before he ever met Foottit and there is no evidence that Foottit was homosexual, among many, many other differences (including the film's ending).Lasse Hallström’s adaptation of the Joanne Harris novel has the mysterious red-cloaked Vianne Rocher ( Juliette Binoche) and her daughter Anouk ( Victoire Thivisol) blowing into town with the north wind. While based on a true story, the film takes many liberties with reality. In France the film had 1.68 million admissions in four weeks.ģ. The rise and fall of the famous clown Chocolat, the first black circus performer who revolutionised the stagnant circus acts and conquered Paris of the Belle poque with his exuberance and originality. Nobody could have imagined the impact that Vianne would make when she arrived in a tranquil, old-fashioned French town. James Thierry is the grandson of Charlie Chaplin.Ģ. With Omar Sy, James Thierre, Clotilde Hesme, Olivier Gourmet.
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