Word: dench
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Chocolat won't win the top prize, but it may snag a Best Supporting Actress award for Judi Dench, who has been nominated three of the past four years and won for her cameo as Elizabeth I in Shakespeare in Love, especially since the two strongest competitors, Kate Hudson and Frances McDormand, are from a shared film?as mother and muse, respectively, in the Age of Rock memoir Almost Famous...
...Angeles, California. Oscar nomination day. Up at 5 a.m. Insert contact lenses. Make mental note to schedule corrective laser eye surgery. Make coffee. Turn on TV. Watch nominations announced on live local news station at 5:30 a.m. Hear Best Supporting Actress nominees announced. Julie Walters, Kate Hudson, Judi Dench (wouldn't be the Oscars if she wasn't nominated for something), Frances McDormand (wouldn't be the Oscars if...well, same as Judi), Marcia Gay Harden. Wonder why Catherine Zeta-Jones was ignored; she was terrific in "Traffic," showed lack of vanity appearing pregnant and heavy. Decide that Hollywood...
...open a chocolate shop, the sensual products of which are bound to remind the locals that life has more to offer than churchgoing and spousal abuse. Their goodies place them in conflict with the rectitudinous mayor (Alfred Molina) but warm the chilled souls of various inhabitants (Judi Dench, Lena Olin, John Wood). Vianne eventually makes common romantic cause with a riverboat wanderer (Depp), who also scandalizes the town with his unsettled and unsettling ways...
...relentless predictability. Vianne always knows, and we always know, what effect her concoctions will have on her customers. They always shake off their repressions and troubles at precisely the right inspirational moment. Dench's character even manages to die just when she should, with her life's work neatly completed. Made with a sort of tasteful vulgarity, this movie never disappoints the slack-minded audience's anticipation of the humanistically healing banality, the life-crushing behavioral cliche...
...open a chocolate shop, the sensual products of which are bound to remind the locals that life has more to offer than churchgoing and spousal abuse. Their goodies place them in conflict with the rectitudinous mayor (Alfred Molina) but warm the chilled souls of various inhabitants (Judi Dench, Lena Olin, John Wood). Vianne eventually makes common romantic cause with a riverboat wanderer (Depp) who also scandalizes the town with his unsettled and unsettling ways. The chocolatier will perhaps evoke for sardonic viewers the old dope peddler of Tom Lehrer's song, "spreading joy wherever [s] he goes." Indeed, some...