Beware the Nice Ones: Anouk is a sweet little girl who grows into a well-meaning if bitter teenager who sees more about the world than even her mother does.This becomes pronounced when he chides a local boy for writing racist slurs on a wall in Les Merauds, and the boy's father protests that Reynaud grabbed his ear and made him scrub off the words. Being Good Sucks: After his Heel≯ace Turn, Reynaud finds that his parishioners don't appreciate that he is stricter on them about tolerance.Bad Samaritan: Zozie in The Girl With No Shadow.Vianne and her birth mother are reunited in The Girl with No Shadow long after Jeanne's death, and while Vianne still loves her she eventually acknowledges that her abduction was a terrible sin.
Baby Be Mine: In Chocolat, it's gradually revealed through reminiscences that Vianne's mother Jeanne stole her from a neighbour, reasoning to herself that she would take better care of the child.Armor-Piercing Question: This is what ends up stopping Zozie Anouk while struggling with her asks, "What was in the black pinata?" in Dia de Los Muertos.Armande agrees she isn't because, unlike Charley, she has a choice. Armande points out that Vianne told Guillaume that Charley would have preferred dignity as opposed to succumbing to pain, but Vianne retorts that Armande isn't a dog. When Vianne finds out that Armande is going blind in a year, and that Armande decides that she's going to die in the comfort of her home, Vianne starts to cry. Ambiguous Disorder: Subverted Rosette has cri du chat or "cry of the cat".Also not to be confused with Chocolate, a Thai film about an autistic girl who goes after her ailing mother's debtors to pay for her chemotherapy. Not to be confused with the 2016 French film Chocolat with Omar Sy, which is about one of the earliest successful black entertainers in France. Leslie Caron has a small role as Madame Audel. Based on a novel by Joanne Harris which apparently nobody reads, with all the Nightmare Fuel taken out. Primarily remembered today as having been nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture, in what commentators then and now regard as the most egregious example of Miramax Films' notorious Oscar campaigns this resulted in a huge backlash that has dogged the film ever since. Whether or not Vianne can overcome her wanderlust is as big a question as whether severity or joy will finally win out over the town. She and Armande even contrive to unite them with the more liberal members of the town during Armande's 70th birthday celebration.Īlthough she changes everyone else's lives in the process, Vianne herself is changed by the people she meets in the town, specifically Roux - with whom she develops a romantic relationship - Josephine, and Armande. Vianne, recognizing fellow outcasts, is the only shop owner in the town not to "boycott immorality" and refuse them service. Conflict is further stirred up by the arrival of a group of Romani, led by the impetuous and handsome Roux ( Johnny Depp).
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