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Chocolat is a 1988 French period drama film written and directed by Claire Denis (in her directorial debut) that follows a young girl who lives with her family in French Cameroon.
Chocolat: Directed by Claire Denis. With Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet, Jean-Claude Adelin. A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon - formerly a colonial outpost - where she's flooded by memories, particularly of Protée, her servant.
Feb 22, 2023 · Newly restored, Claire Denis’s quasi-autobiographical “Chocolat,” a child’s-eye view of French colonialism, is austere yet vivid.
"Chocolat" is a film of infinite delicacy. It is not one of those steamy melodramatic interracial romances where love conquers all. It is a movie about the rules and conventions of a racist society and how two intelligent adults, one black, one white, use their mutual sexual attraction as a battleground on which, very subtly, to taunt each other.
An affluent white woman named France (Mireille Perrier) returns to her childhood home in Cameroon after many years of living in France. While there, she reflects upon her youth. When she was ...
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Apr 20, 1989 · In her first film, “Chocolat” (at the Nuart Friday), co-writer/director Claire Denis, who has worked closely with Jim Jarmusch and Wim Wenders, treasures the elliptical and the allusive. She...
Chocolat. Claire Denis France , 1988. Claire Denis drew on her own childhood experiences growing up in colonial French Africa for her multilayered, languorously absorbing feature debut, which explores many of the themes that would recur throughout her work.
Jul 24, 2001 · Chocolat (1988) is a French film directed by Claire Denis, about a French family that lives in colonial Cameroon. Marc & Aimée Dalens (François Cluzet & Giulia Boschi) are the parents of France (Cécile Ducasse), a young girl who befriends Protée (Isaach de Bankolé), a Cameroon native who is the family's household servant.
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Apr 28, 2024 · A Palme D’Or nominee, Chocolat is a remarkably assured directorial debut featuring all the tension, subtlety and sophistication that characterise Claire Denis’ films, brought to life in a dazzling new 4K restoration.
Sep 10, 2012 · A young woman called France (Perrier; Ducasse as a child) returns to the Cameroons, where she recalls (in one long flashback) her childhood as the daughter of a district governor of French West...
