Track Listing

1. Minor Swing
2. Main Titles
3. The Story of Grandmere
4. Vianne Sets Up Shop
5. Three Woman
6. Vianne Confronts the Comte
7. Other Possibilities
8. Guillaume's Confession
9. Passage of Time
10. Boycott Immorality
11. Party Preparations
12. Chocolate Sauce
13. Fire
14. Vianne Gazes at the River
15. Mayan Bowl Breaks
16. Taste of Chocolate
17. Ashes to the Wind/Roux Returns
18. Caravan

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1073 in Music
• Released on: 2001-01-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Original language: English, French

Amazon.com's Best of 2001
Director Lasse Hallstrom's recipe for Chocolat is bittersweet, a tale of human hope and frailty imbued with no small amount of symbolism. It's a story that requires a deft, sensitive musical touch, and Hallstrom has wisely turned again to English composer Rachel Portman for the honors. As she did on The Legend of Bagger Vance and her previous, Academy Award-nominated collaboration with Hallstrom, The Cider House Rules, Portman walks the fine line between preciousness and delicacy with grace and dignity. The gypsy flavor of Django Reinhardt's and Stephane Grappelli's "Minor Swing" sets the story's place and time, while Portman's gentle pastoral melodies outline its emotional core, with a few gratifying excursions into more Euro-ethnic music to keep it well-seasoned. The result is another quiet, powerful Portman masterpiece. --Jerry McCulley

Customer Reviews

Chocolat CD
This is an excellent CD. The music is whimsical, light and fun. I teach yoga to college students and frequently use this in the background.

Chocolat
If you liked the movie, you'll listen to this CD over and over. One of my favorites.

CD of the music of the film CHOCOLAT
The CD received of the music from the film CHOCOLAT was exellent, and made very enjoyable listening, it arrived in wonderful condition, and was received before the expected date, it has been played many times over, Many Thanks,it was a pleasure to do business with your goodselves, Ken Relf