Merci pour le chocolat

Oct 25 2000 Not Rated 1h 41m
Crime, Drama, Mystery

Mika, heiress to a Swiss chocolate company, is married to celebrated pianist André and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his tenth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned she was almost switched with Guillaume at birth.

Plot

In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Lenna leans that when she was born, a nurse had mistakenly told to the prominent pianist André Polonski that she would be his daughter. André has just remarried his first wife, the heiress of a Swiss chocolate factory Marie-Claire "Mika" Muller and they live in Lausanne with André's son Guillaume Polonski. Out of the blue, Jeanne visits André and he offers to give piano classes to help her in her examination. Jeanne becomes closer to André and sooner she discovers that Mika might be drugging her stepson with Rohypnol. Further, she might have killed his second wife Lisbeth.

Written by

Caroline Eliacheff, Claude Chabrol, Charlotte Armstrong

Directed by

Claude Chabrol

Production Countries

France, Switzerland

Production Companies

France 2 Cinéma, MK2 Films, Cab Producciones

Languages

Français

Awards

4 wins & 2 nominations

Scores
# of Votes
6,302
Average Rating
6.7 out of 10
Metascore
83
Popularity
NA