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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.
Chocolat | Rotten Tomatoes. PG-13 Released Jul 18, 1980 1h 45m Drama. List. An affluent white woman named France (Mireille Perrier) returns to her childhood home in Cameroon after many years of...
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When mysterious Vianne and her child arrive in a tranquil French town in the winter of 1959, no one could have imagined the impact that she and her spirited daughter would have on the community...
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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.
"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.
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 t...
