Better Than Chocolate
| Movie | |
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| German title | Better Than Chocolate |
| Original title | Better Than Chocolate |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Anne Wheeler |
| script | Peggy Thompson |
| production | Sharon McGowan |
| music | Graeme Coleman |
| camera | Gregory Middleton |
| cut | Alison Grace |
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Better Than Chocolate is a Canadian comedy film from the year 1999 . The Director led Anne Wheeler , the writer wrote Peggy Thompson . The main roles were played by Wendy Crewson , Karyn Dwyer and Christina Cox .
action
Maggie finds a job in a bookstore in a strange town. Since she doesn't have an apartment yet, the owner Frances allows her to stay there for the time being. Maggie meets the vagabond artist Kim, and the two become a couple. When Maggie's mother, Lila, suddenly announces her visit, Maggie has to find an apartment as soon as possible. She can move into a warehouse that has been converted into an apartment because the owner wants to travel for half a year. Meanwhile, Kim's trailer is being towed out of a parking ban. However, she has no money to redeem the car, so she moves in with Maggie. When Lila comes to town, she has brought Maggie's younger brother with her and tells her that she wants to divorce her husband and live with Maggie on a temporary basis. Maggie hides her relationship with Kim.
Lila befriends transsexual Judy, who is in love with the bookseller Frances. Lila gives her advice on love affairs but thinks Judy is in love with a man. The friendship with Lila gives Judy more self-confidence and can even finally break away from her parents, who do not accept her transsexuality. At the end of the film, Frances and Judy become a couple.
When Lila discovers Maggie and Kim in bed one morning, Kim tries to explain to her that they are a couple and love each other. Maggie doesn't admit that she loves Kim, however. Kim leaves the apartment offended and wants nothing more to do with Maggie.
In protest against the censorship by the customs authorities, Maggie stands naked in the window of the bookstore one night with a banner outlining herself as a “perverted lesbian”. Some right-wing extremists see Maggie, insult them and finally throw the store with incendiary devices . It causes a gas explosion in a neighboring café, but nobody is seriously injured. When Lila comes to the scene of the accident, she explains to her daughter that she accepts who she is. Kim also learns of the incident and returns to Maggie.
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that there are a large number of films with gay and lesbian themes. Such a film must meet certain quality standards in order to attract attention, which this film does not. He criticized the "flat" and "unconvincing" ("flat and unconvincing") dialogues. Berardinelli praised the "charismatic" portrayals of Karyn Dwyer and Christina Cox.
Oliver Baumgarten praised the performance of Peter Outerbridge and the main actors, the camera work and the lighting on www.schnitt.de . He wrote that the film would exhibit "remarkable liberality".
Awards
The film won the Toronto Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival Audience Award in 1999 . He was nominated for the GLAAD Media Award in 2000.
backgrounds
The shooting took place in Vancouver . The film title is based on the song Ice Cream by Sarah McLachlan . Here it says in a line of text: “Your love is better than chocolate. Better than anything else that I've tried ".
Web links
- Better Than Chocolate in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Better Than Chocolate at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Better Than Chocolate on pro-fun.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ reelviews.net
- ↑ schnitt.de ( Memento of the original of February 13, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
