Chabrol's sweet poison

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Movie
German title Chabrol's sweet poison
Original title Merci pour le chocolate
Country of production France , Switzerland
original language French
Publishing year 2000
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Claude Chabrol
script Claude Chabrol
Caroline Eliacheff
production Marin Karmitz
music Matthieu Chabrol
camera Renato Berta
cut Monique Fardoulis
occupation

Chabrols sweet poison (German alternative title: sweet poison ) is a film by the French director Claude Chabrol from 2000 based on the novel "The Chocolate Cobweb" (1948) by Charlotte Armstrong . The film was first shown at the Venice Film Festival in August 2000. In France the premiere took place on October 25, 2000, in Germany on January 4, 2001.

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After the death of her parents, Marie-Claire - called Mika - inherited their chocolate company and married the well-known pianist André Polonski, who brought his son Guillaume into the relationship from his first marriage. At the same time, the young pianist Jeanne Pollet learns from a friend of her mother's that she was born on the same day as Polonski's son in the same clinic and that a nurse mistook her for Polonski's daughter for a short time. In the further course of the film, it remains unclear whether the infants were actually mixed up. Jeanne's mother confesses to her that her late father was not her birth father, but that the father was sterile and that she was the result of artificial insemination. Jeanne visits André Polonski at home. He enjoys teaching the young woman to play the piano. By chance, Jeanne finds out that Mika puts sleeping pills to the nightly cocoa for stepson Guillaume. Guillaume's mother died a few years ago after falling asleep at the wheel after a car accident after she had had a drink prepared by Mika and then drove into town to get the missing Rohypnol for Polonski, without which André Polonski cannot sleep. Jeanne and Guillaume are suspicious because Rohypnol is always available in the house. One evening Jeanne and Guillaume drive to the pharmacy to get Rohypnol after drinking a coffee Mika has made. After her departure, André realizes that Mika has his late wife Lisbeth on her conscience, confronts her and is concerned about the two young people. In fact, Jeanne caused a car accident out of drowsiness that evening, which only resulted in sheet metal damage.

In the final shot you see Mika with tears in her eyes in front of her current crochet handicraft, a blanket in the shape of a spider web.

Reviews

“Subtle, almost chamber play-like staged psychological thriller about small secrets that lead to major catastrophes because everyone tries not to show what they think. Masterfully staged and played, Claude Chabrol creates a social microcosm as ' film noir ' in color. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Like many of Claude Chabrol's films, this one, his 52nd, is staged as a chamber play whose actors sit in an inescapable spiral. The course of the action is not played out by him in a plan; at every turn of this spiral he lets a doubt shine through, lets flash of hints, irritated with apparent contradictions to the social reality in which the plot is located. Only at the very end does one understand that the logic of this implementation corresponds to the psychology of the protagonist Mika, who is not evil in the banal sense. In her unconditional pursuit of happiness she can no longer distinguish between good and bad. In this unsettling sense, 'Sweet Poison' is unquestionably an ideally cast cinematic masterpiece. "

- Johannes Willms in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of December 24, 2007.

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  1. ↑ Release certificate for Chabrol's sweet poison . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2009 (PDF; test number: 86 510 V).
  2. ↑ Chabrol's sweet poison. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used