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"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.
Chocolat. Directed by Claire Denis • 1988 • France, West Germany, Cameroon. Starring Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet. 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 ...
Jan 20, 2022. Rated: A • Aug 4, 2006. In Theaters At Home TV Shows. Advertise With Us. An affluent white woman named France (Mireille Perrier) returns to her childhood home in Cameroon after many...
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Chocolat. Claire Denis. Chocolat. Courtesy of Janus Films. New 4K Restoration. This film has no current screenings. The brilliant prelude to a great career. —J. Hoberman, The New York Times. Claire Denis. 1988. France, West Germany, Cameroon. English and French with English subtitles. 105 minutes.
Mar 10, 1989 · Synopsis by Hal Erickson. Set in French Colonial Africa, Chocolat is told from the viewpoint of 8-year-old Cecile Ducasse. With no other frame of reference, the innocent Ducasse accepts the subjugation of the black natives by the white colonists as the natural order of things.
A young French woman returns to the silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family’s houseboy, Protee – a man of great nobility and beauty – and the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society.
Drama 1988 100 mins. Director: Claire Denis. Overview Overview. Claire Denis’ debut announced her as a fully formed talent. Part-inspired by her childhood in French colonial Africa, Chocolat boasts a coiled central performance by Isaach De Bankolé as Protée, ‘house boy’ to a white family.
