jill

Does anyone know of villages in France similar to the one depicted in the movie Chocolat?

loveit

I believe "Chocolat" was filmed in a small village near Tolouse (sp?). (If you do a search of the movie title here, you can probably find out more info.) However, we thought the villages along the Wine Road in Alsace (Riquewihr and Ribeauville in particular) looked so much like it. We were there in the off-season, and they seemed to be villages almost untouched by time!

Capo

Hi Jill. As the website below notes, the mythical town in France in Chocolat, "Lansquenet-sous-Tannes", is actually a composite of two French towns, Flavigny (which, I believe, is somewhere in central France) and Beynac (which is in the Dordogne region.)<BR><BR>http://www.geocities.com/~polfilms/chocolat.html <BR><BR>It's my understanding that Flavigny does not have a river nearby so Beynac was used for all the river scenes, including the opening scene where the two caped figures make their way up a hill near the river in a snowstorm, which a person recounts seeing being filmed, on the website below.<BR><BR>http://www.puffles.com/peri01oct16.htm

jw

I don't have my map in front of me, but I think Flavigny is just a little north-west of Dijon.

Christina

Flavigny is in the Burguny wine region, in-between Paris and Dijon (closer to Dijon), jw is right. There is a river nearby, the Yonne, but I don't think the town is on the river. I haven't been there. I think the real name of the town is Flavigny-sur-Ozerain. I've read that also about it being filmed in more than one place but I don't know the details.