While the townspeople are supposed to be abstaining from worldly pleasures, Vianne tempts them with unusual and delicious chocolate creations, using her expert touch to create just the right candy to break down each customer’s resistance. A few days after settling into town, Vianne opens up a confectionery shop across the street from the house of worship-shortly after the beginning of Lent. In 1959, a mysterious woman named Vianne (Juliette Binoche) moves with her young daughter into a small French village, where much of the community’s activities are dominated by the local Catholic church. If you’re an incurable romantic, this is the place to celebrate your nuptials in fine style.The most tempting of all sweets becomes the key weapon in a battle of sensual pleasure versus disciplined self-denial in this comedy.
Reynaud’s red-silk walled dining room is Brympton’s State Dining Room.
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Today occasionally hired out as a location for filming ( Brympton House is also featured in 1995 historical drama Restoration, with Robert Downey Jr, as well as in several TV productions), or a hospitality event, it remains essentially a private residence. For a few years during World War II, Brympton was a boys' school, before being reclaimed by its owners as a private house. The house has no overall architectural style, having grown and been extensively added to since its beginnings in the 13th century. It’s Brympton House in Brympton D’Evercy. In Yeovil, Somerset, is the delicious interior of Reynaud’s home. The hall is situated in Barra Hall Park, a 20-acre formal park on Freemans Lane, Hayes, West London, seen in Bend It Like Beckham. Originally a manor house, Barra did indeed become the area’s town hall in the 1920s, and is now used as a children’s centre.
The Fonthill Arch, just past the Riverbarn, would have been the gatehouse and entrance to the different mansions and abbey, and is believed to be the work of original Palladian architect, Inigo Jones.īarra Hall in Hayes, West London, supplied the interior of the town hall. An immense house built on a ludicrous scale in the wildly popular Gothic Revival style by eccentric writer William Beckford Junior, the whole extravagant structure collapsed overnight, leaving only a tiny fragment (sadly, not accessible to the public).
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The riverside, where the despised ‘river rats’ led by Roux ( Johnny Depp) moor their flotilla of little boats, is the mile-long Fonthill Lake, on the Fonthill Estate in Fonthill Bishop, near Salisbury, Wiltshire.Ĭovering over 9,000 acres of outstanding beauty, the Estate has a fascinating history and a series of grand country mansions have been built over the centuries, including the legendary Fonthill Abbey, one of Britain’s most famous ‘lost’ houses. The village is pretty much as it’s seen on screen, although the glum statue of the mayor’s forebear was added for the production.īut if you’re in the UK, you can still enjoy some of the film’s Gallic charm. The enticingly quaint riverside village of village of ‘Lansquenet’ is Flavigny-sur-Ozerain, about 30 miles northwest of Dijon in Burgundy, France. The film sidesteps any notions of anti-clericalism by turning her nemesis from the novel’s priest into the puritanical Mayor Reynaud ( Alfred Molina). She’s brought into conflict with local tradition when she begins to awaken villagers’ passions by flagrantly opening a chocolaterie during the fast of Lent. Lasse Hallström’s adaptation of the Joanne Harris novel has the mysterious red-cloaked Vianne Rocher ( Juliette Binoche) and her daughter Anouk ( Victoire Thivisol) blowing into town with the north wind.
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