the french either make pro marxist film or anti marxist film with a few in between . merci pour le chocolat be the latter of this genre . from the opening credit tell the viewer what music be go to be play and by whom it be who compose you know that you be go to be swathe in middle class pretension . it be an old man film with an excess of 40 plus people . it be also direct by an old man along with an old crew who have nothing to say about life to the viewer . the plot be not only banal but preposterous . how many film reveal the plot through dialogue only to repeat the same message via flashback some five minute later . maybe the director and actor have a low retentive capacity . in truth their be no tenable plot at all . it be riddle with hole like a good piece of french cheese . whether intentional or not and it be a film about the bourgeoisie . at least a third of the film focus on the piano and the pretentious twaddle espouse in each scene . i concede it have some well frame shot though they couldn not have use a steady cam in this film it would have wake them all up . other than it be a nonsense story and the film allow the upper middle class to parade their value and vanity in a very comfortable swiss location . a telling line of the film be when rodolphe pauly tell anna mouglalis that she need not lock her car while in the resort . oh dear me . on the dvd and miss huppert make a comment about shed a false tear for a scene . smirk she say represent like they do in the american actor studio . i think miss huppert and the rest of the cast could learn well from the actor studio . if there be one statement that stand out in my mind it be when huppert remark we be have friend for the weekend and all the servant be away . no doubt they have all escape from the mind numbing set l they be associate with such an appalling film . safety medical note . in the film they show a hot water scald be cover with ointment and a bandage . this should never be do . only cold water should be use . minus 10 mark .