Grab your favorite sweet treat, your sweetheart or a friend or a frenemy or your fur-baby, and join us for our Valentine’s re-watch! Our guest, the bad-ass actress, model and writer Patricia Galvez picked the 2000 film “Chocolat,” as it was one that made a big impact on her life not just as an artist, but as a person, and it just felt so right to have this be our Valentine’s Day episode! This has a star-studded cast, among them Dame Judy Dench, Juliette Binoche, and Alfred Molina to name a few. We discuss how this film tricked people into thinking they were watching a romance film, but really what they got was so much more - a film about the relationships between women, the roles of motherhood, and all the delightful subtle subversiveness woven throughout the film. Patricia and Devin met on a music video shoot very shortly after Patricia moved to Los Angeles, and then reconnected years ago through their training at the martial arts studio Noho MMA. This was a room full of women warriors, you do NOT want to mess with them. We also talk about some of the rom-coms of our childhood, a lot about musical theatre, and making chocolate. This week’s women in film facts are appropriately French in theme, discussing Alice Guy Blaché, who is considered the first female director and filmmaker, and Bridgette Bardot, being both an icon and later marring on her own legacy. You can find Patricia on Instagram @patriciag_03 and check out her IMDb to catch her on a screen near you!
(0:00) Introduction
(01:23) Icebreakers
(16:21) Women in Film History
(30:28) Chocolat
