Lasse Hallstrom
Movie CHOCOLATE Please help, I really need help anybody who knows alot about films?
How does director Lasse Hallstrom use CHOCOLATE as a symbol in the satire of french politics and religious hypocrisy
This is a movie with Johnny Depp and the undertone of sexual indentations that Chocolate is sensual and anything like that was anti-religious and many in those times would puplicly be against these things but privately taking part in those very things.
Lasse Hallstrom interviewed by Anine Bing & Sofia Eng
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