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Nightcap

2000 · 1h 41m · Not Rated Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by Claude Chabrol

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Overview

Mika, heiress to a Swiss chocolate company, is married to celebrated pianist André and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his tenth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned she was almost switched with Guillaume at birth.

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85%
Tomatometer
Fresh

We can rejoice that he carries on, breathes his profession as his native air, makes pictures of varying quality but persistently makes them.

Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
Fresh

A tasty appetizer that leaves you wanting more.

Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News
Fresh

An elegant, exquisitely modulated psychological thriller.

Susan Stark, Detroit News
Fresh

It's enough to watch Huppert scheming, with her small, intelligent eyes as steady as any noir villain, and to enjoy the perfectly pitched web of tension that Chabrol spins.

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh

Merci Pour le Chocolat has a restraint and rigor that we don't see in commercial American films, the kind that a director creates when he has no interest in sentimentality or in soliciting the audience's favor.

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle

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