“Nine out of ten people love chocolate, the tenth lie,” said American comic book artist and illustrator John G. Tullius in a cult saying.
“No arms, no chocolate”, still launches Omar Sy to François Cluzet in the film Untouchables released in 2011. On our plates, in art, in fashion, throughout history, chocolate has been everywhere, since the dawn of time.
If it was first a currency and a sacred drink for the Aztecs, then the guilty pleasure par excellence of the French monarch Louis XIV, the elixir extracted from this precious bean knows a real odyssey which, let us be reassured, is not not about to stop.
The crazy adventure of chocolate, by Stéphane Bergouhnioux, thus compiles the most delicious interviews and archives to trace the extraordinary destiny of a beloved food that has inspired many throughout the ages.
We learn, for example, in this enchanting documentary, that the iconic character of Willy Wonka imagined by the British writer Roald Dahl was born because he grew up near a Cadbury candy factory.
In this regard, the doctor of English children’s literature Florence Casulli reveals several well-kept secrets of Charlie and the chocolate factorytwice adapted to the cinema since its publication in 1964. Who knew that the grandiose decor of Mel Stuart’s version (1971) was entirely edible, to the delight of child actors?
As for Tim Burton’s feature film (2005), more than 100,000 liters of chocolate were used for the famous Willy Wonka factory river!