Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Forumrxes Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

morrison-dylan-fan After spending 4 hours getting a virus out of my laptop and spending an hour fixing the freezer,I felt like staying away from anything complex,and watching an easy-going flick! Taking a look at Netflix UK,I spotted what appeared to be a charming French Romantic Comedy,which led to me getting ready to find out how anonymous the romantics could be.The plot:Suffering from social anxiety, Angélique Delange finds herself unable to show her chocolate making skills with confidence.Also suffering with social anxiety,sweet shop owner M. Mercier tells Delange that he will sell her chocolate,and make up a tale about who the chef is,so that she can pretend to just be a sales rep. Accepting the offer, Delange and Mercier are thrilled to hear from customers over the next 7 years that this is the best chocolate they have ever had.Taking the latest batch to the shop,Delange is shocked to discover that Mercier has suddenly died.After mourning the loss of Mercier, Delange decides to follow Mercier's praise of her chocolate,and get a job at The Chocolate Mill.Finding Mill owner Jean-René Van Den Hugde to have a burning passion for chocolate,Delange is horrified to find that the business is about to go bankrupt,which leads to Delange deciding to do everything she can to stop The Chocolate Mill turning into a chocolate teapot.View on the film: Diving into the chocolate,co-writer/(along with Philippe Blasband) director Jean-Pierre Améris & cinematographer Gérard Simon make the movie look like a diamond-crusted box of chocolates,as rustic greens and ruby reds painted with glossy chocolate.For the screenplay,the writers give the film an enchanting fairy tale atmosphere,with the message about facing your fears being poured with a delicate touch.Keeping away from hard boiling the romance,the writers stir the romance between Hugde & Delange into a light mix,by giving each of them terrifically awkward quarks,which leads to very funny bumbling set-pieces,as Hugde and Delange try to taste a velvety finish.Chaging in and out of his shirts, Benoît Poelvoorde gives a great performance as Hugde,thanks to Poelvoorde swaying Hugde's bag of nerves to the adorable,rather than the annoying side of things.Kicking her heels in happiness,the cute Isabelle Carré gives a joyful performance as Delange,whose kooky edges Carré turns into a wonderful match to Hugde's anxiety,as Delange and Hugde put the romantic anonymous inside a box of chocolates.

rps-2 This is a delightful film...it's full of fun and silliness. Even the mandatory "humping scene" is more laughable than lewd. It's a movie that addresses the insecurities we all have had or perhaps still have. And how could anybody not fall in love with Isabelle Carre and her delightful Angelique character. It's a lighter piece or work yet it's not fluff. It addresses some serious social issues but in a delightful entertaining, engaging manner. Watching this and, recently, the splendid TV series "Engagements" (Spiral), I have developed a whole new appreciation of French cinema. In many ways it's better than British work and incomparably ahead of Hollywood's efforts. I dare you not to love this film and the people in it

l_rawjalaurence With intertextual nods to LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG and CHOCOLAT (amongst others), ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS can hardly be said to be particularly original in terms of plot. The nuances of chocolate and their relationship to human behavior have been well analyzed in all types of film, even CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY. Nonetheless Jean-Pierre Améris' film is a charming comedy set in a provincial French town, in which Angélique Delange (Isabelle Carré), a genius at chocolate making who passes herself off as a sales executive, and her boss, the gloriously named Jean-René van den Hudge (Benoit Poelvoorde), repeatedly convince themselves that they are not in love with one another, while behaving in precisely the opposite way. The problem is that both of them have a chronic lack of self-confidence. The film offers them several opportunities to get together, but eventually stages the denouement during the meeting of a self-help group called Romantics Anonymous (hence the title). Several of these sequences are cleverly filmed - for example the night when both of them are thrown together in the same hotel room during a chocolate-tasting convention. Jean-René tries every trick in the book to leave the room; having plucked up the courage to tell Angélique his feelings, he finds that she has run away. The main actors offer winsome central performances, and the props also help define their natures. Angélique's long woolly scarf, so Seventies in style, more than aptly sums her up.

secondtake Romantics Anonymous (2010)Sometimes a feelgood movie is so obvious you know at the start how it's going to end. But it feels so good it doesn't matter, and that's the way "Romantics Anonymous" works. The leading woman Isabelle Carre ("He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not") is a sweet, cute, lovable introvert, and I suppose any movie with her in it acting vulnerable and awkward would be a winner. Next to her is a very geeky kind of leading French actor, Benoit Pelvoorde, who is utterly brilliant even if he won't quite steal your heart. Or maybe he will. Part of the movie's aim is to take two mild misfits who are lonely and yet rather wonderful inside and get the audience to identify with them.Another major character is the little chocolate factory where they meet. Seeing the chocolates being made, and tasted, is part of the fun of the movie. Even if you don't like chocolate you'll see the pleasure of a superb high-end chocolate being developed as you watch. There are then two groups of sidekicks, one for each character. The woman goes to group therapy for her emotional issues (hence the name of the movie) and the man has his staff at the factory. All of them are, en masse, supportive and sweet.In fact, with all this sweetness going on you might wonder how you can stand it. And I suppose that's where you appreciate that it's just an hour and a quarter. Plenty. Even at this length you yearn for some complication, or some depth. Our two lovebirds are great but they remain oddly cardboard thin, too. It's a bit ogre-ish to complain about such a well-meaning and well-made movie. It's edited with breakneck speed, shot well, acted well, and rises up the television sit-com genre it may somehow owe something to. Give it a look. Totally fun.