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Nightcap

Original title: Merci pour le chocolat
  • 2000
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 41m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
5.7K
YOUR RATING
Nightcap (2000)
CrimeDramaMystery

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... Read allIn 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 remar... Read allIn 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 a... Read all

  • Director
    • Claude Chabrol
  • Writers
    • Caroline Eliacheff
    • Claude Chabrol
    • Charlotte Armstrong
  • Stars
    • Isabelle Huppert
    • Jacques Dutronc
    • Anna Mouglalis
  • See production, box office & company info
  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    5.7K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Claude Chabrol
    • Writers
      • Caroline Eliacheff
      • Claude Chabrol
      • Charlotte Armstrong
    • Stars
      • Isabelle Huppert
      • Jacques Dutronc
      • Anna Mouglalis
    • 49User reviews
    • 88Critic reviews
    • 83Metascore
  • See production, box office & company info
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 5 wins & 4 nominations

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    Isabelle Huppert and Jacques Dutronc in Nightcap (2000)
    Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Benoît Magimel, and Laura Smet in Nightcap (2000)
    Isabelle Huppert and Jacques Dutronc in Nightcap (2000)
    Isabelle Huppert and Jacques Dutronc in Nightcap (2000)
    Isabelle Huppert and Jacques Dutronc in Nightcap (2000)
    Isabelle Huppert and Jacques Dutronc in Nightcap (2000)
    Isabelle Huppert and Jacques Dutronc in Nightcap (2000)
    Isabelle Huppert and Jacques Dutronc in Nightcap (2000)
    Isabelle Huppert and Jacques Dutronc in Nightcap (2000)
    Isabelle Huppert and Jacques Dutronc in Nightcap (2000)
    Isabelle Huppert and Jacques Dutronc in Nightcap (2000)
    Isabelle Huppert and Jacques Dutronc in Nightcap (2000)

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    Isabelle Huppert
    Isabelle Huppert
    • Marie-Claire 'Mika' Muller
    Jacques Dutronc
    Jacques Dutronc
    • André Polonski
    Anna Mouglalis
    Anna Mouglalis
    • Jeanne Pollet
    Rodolphe Pauly
    • Guillaume Polonski
    Brigitte Catillon
    • Louise Pollet
    Michel Robin
    Michel Robin
    • Dufreigne
    Mathieu Simonet
    Mathieu Simonet
    • Axel
    Lydia Andrei
    • Lisbeth
    Véronique Alain
    • Madame le Maire
    Isolde Barth
    Isolde Barth
    • Pauline
    Jacqueline Burnand
    François Germond
    Antoinette Martin
    Michel Moulin
    Dorotea Brandin
    Dorotea Brandin
    Jean-Marie Daunas
    Catherine Epars
    Rodolphe Ittig
    • Director
      • Claude Chabrol
    • Writers
      • Caroline Eliacheff
      • Claude Chabrol
      • Charlotte Armstrong(novel "The Chocolate Cobweb")
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      At the time this movie was shot, the house was owned by David Bowie, who was trying to sell it.
    • Goofs
      At around 40 minutes in, when Mika is talking to Dr. Pollet in the hospital, two crew members' feet and a cable (possibly the boom mic's cable) are visibly moving, reflected on the side of a table. This shot lasts for approx 50 seconds.
    • Connections
      References Night at the Crossroads (1932)
    • Soundtracks
      Funérailles
      de Franz Liszt

      Par Claudio Arrau

      Copyright Philips Classics

      Avec l'aimable autorisation de Universal Music Projets Spéciaux

    User reviews49

    Review
    Review
    Featured review
    more carob, than chocolate
    After seeing this film, I wanted to rush to read the Charlotte Armstrong novel The Chocolate Cobweb, not because I was wowed by the source material but rather to try and fathom what on earth she was trying for. Perhaps the fault can be blamed on the adaptation by Caroline Eliacheff and director Claude Chabrol. It's hard to know but what is certain is that this treatment poses more questions than it answers. Mysteries can be fun without having all the motivations explained, since human behaviour is often inexplicable, but here I found I had the same response as in Chabrol's La Ceremonie when Jacqueline Bisset's family are blown away - shock and disbelief. The plot contrivance that leads Anna Mouglalis to the house of Isabelle Huppert and Jacques Dutronc is as tenuous as a spider's web. One hears it and thinks, this can't be all there is?! And whilst Huppert supplies some intriguing duplicitious body language - note the movement of her legs as subtext in the scene where she visits Mouglalis' mother - there is more suggested than actually revealed. It also reminded me of the non-end to Chabrol's L'Enfer, where he dared not provide a conclusion to the unfinished screenplay by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Chabrol's camera occasionally pans past Huppert to make observations, and the edit from a photo of Dutronc's first wife whom Mouglalis resembles (the actress plays her in flashback) to Mouglalis listening to music, her hands covering her face in the identical pose, is amusing. But the climactic revelation at the end has no weight, as arbitrary as Huppert's movement from sitting enveloped by her web-patterned lacework, to a long one take closeup where she cries, to folding into a foetal position. The titular chocolate is a red herring, but I was more disappointed that the implication of incest with her son had no basis. Perhaps one's inclination to project onto the narrative is an indication of it's lack of focus. Mouglalis conveys a strong screen presence, and perhaps because Huppert and Chabrol have worked together to great effect before, one's expectations of her contribution in his films is high. But I can't feel I can criticise Huppert. She seems keyed to do something that the screenplay never brings to fruition. Hoping that a second viewing will make the filmmakers objectives clearer is never a good sign.
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    • petershelleyau
    • Aug 24, 2001

    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 25, 2000 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Switzerland
    • Official sites
      • Swiss Films page
      • Unifrance page
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Merci pour le Chocolat
    • Filming locations
      • Bulle, Canton de Fribourg, Switzerland
    • Production companies
      • MK2 Productions
      • CAB Productions
      • France 2 Cinéma
    • See more company credits at IMDbPro

    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $443,238
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $14,868
      • Aug 4, 2002
    • Gross worldwide
      • $7,972,251
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 41 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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