In the movie, Juliette Binoche plays Vianne, a mysterious woman who's moved into a small conservative village with her daughter and opened up a small shop in the middle of the town. A shop that only serves mysterious exotic chocolates to the reluctant villagers. But the villagers aren't taking to her immediately as Vianne refuses to play by the rules and begins making friends with the local sailor played by Johnny Depp.
    Ah, what a delicious movie this is. This marked lots of Oscars and Oscar nods and it's not hard to see why. The movie is a great assortment and mixture of incredible cast members like Maggie Smith, Johnny Depp and Juliette Binoche. Juliette Binoche is excellent as the movie's sexy lead character who seduces people by opening their minds with chocolate and eventually opening their hearts. At one point in the movie, she takes in an abused wife as her apprentice and they begin spreading the word about town with their chocolate. Johnny Depp adds charisma to an already excellent movie, with his character and love interest. He plays a sailor who is denounced as an outcast in town all except for Vianne who welcomes him with open arms. The movie's dialogue is great as we get to hear wry witty humor from every character and delightful speeches from the movie's villain played by Alfred Molina. Along with that, we also get a great story with incredible wry depth into an array of hilarious and sometimes sad characters in the town's gallery of oddball villagers. We see an imp-ish priest who won't stand up to the mayor, an old man clinging to his dying dog and looking for the love of another woman, and an elderly woman attempting to reconcile with her estranged daughter and grand-son, not to mention Vianne herself, who has some secrets of her own that we learn within time into the movie... and that is only the tip of the iceberg, folks.

The movie, though good, is full of a lot of fluff which seemed to distract me at times. The love interest between Depp and Binoche in the movie is distracting and just seems tacked on at times, the dialogue between them is as thin as their chemistry. The movie takes a lot of time to build up to any real developments in the movie which a patient viewer need to be aware of.

Chocolat is indeed a treat that deserves a look at and in the end will leave only a sweet taste in your mouth.