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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.
It is a deliberately beautiful film - many of the frames create breathtaking compositions - but it is not a travelogue and it is not a love story. It is about how racism can prevent two people from looking each other straight in the eyes, and how they punish each other for the pain that causes them. This is one of the best films of the year.
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 ...
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 throughout her work.
On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories concentrating on her family's houseboy.
Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, Protee - a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty - and the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society. — Dawn M. Barclift. The young woman named France is walking along a road towards Douala, Cameroon.
