Ray Pride

Claude Chabrol at his most elegant and sinister, examining the perversity of evil in pearlescent Swiss surroundings. Isabelle Huppert is heir to a Swiss chocolate fortune; she's just married a concert pianist for the second time (Jacques Dutronc, all hooded blue eyes, forelock and forlorn smile). His second wife, mother to his now-teenage son, had died in a car accident years earlier. Enter: a long-forgotten intrigue about babies mixed up at birth. Chabrol's pleasures are some of the most civilized in moviegoing. Witty, elegant, and endless playful, "Merci pour le chocolat" is the work of a master. Hitchcock and Lang are smiling somewhere.

"Merci pour le chocolat" opens Friday at the Music Box.

(2002-08-21)

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