Chocolat (1988)
Country: FR/GER/CAM
Technical: col 105m
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Isaach de Bankole, Giula Boschi, François Cluzet
Synopsis:
A girl revisits Cameroon and recalls her childhood spent there with her mother and father at an administrative outpost, and in particular their black servant, Protée.
Review:
Another view of French Equatorial Africa to that seen in Coup de torchon, without the violence. Instead, sexual tensions simmer (between mother and servant) and there is an understated sense of the dignity of the African native, who remains mute and submissive throughout (save for a recalcitrant English-speaking cook). It ambles along like life in those latitudes with little action or dialogue of any length, just the odd portent dropped here and there, before it concludes with a long-held shot as such things tend to do. Africa has rarely looked so desolate and there is no doubt this is the work of a director with a sense of her subject.
Country: FR/GER/CAM
Technical: col 105m
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Isaach de Bankole, Giula Boschi, François Cluzet
Synopsis:
A girl revisits Cameroon and recalls her childhood spent there with her mother and father at an administrative outpost, and in particular their black servant, Protée.
Review:
Another view of French Equatorial Africa to that seen in Coup de torchon, without the violence. Instead, sexual tensions simmer (between mother and servant) and there is an understated sense of the dignity of the African native, who remains mute and submissive throughout (save for a recalcitrant English-speaking cook). It ambles along like life in those latitudes with little action or dialogue of any length, just the odd portent dropped here and there, before it concludes with a long-held shot as such things tend to do. Africa has rarely looked so desolate and there is no doubt this is the work of a director with a sense of her subject.
Country: FR/GER/CAM
Technical: col 105m
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Isaach de Bankole, Giula Boschi, François Cluzet
Synopsis:
A girl revisits Cameroon and recalls her childhood spent there with her mother and father at an administrative outpost, and in particular their black servant, Protée.
Review:
Another view of French Equatorial Africa to that seen in Coup de torchon, without the violence. Instead, sexual tensions simmer (between mother and servant) and there is an understated sense of the dignity of the African native, who remains mute and submissive throughout (save for a recalcitrant English-speaking cook). It ambles along like life in those latitudes with little action or dialogue of any length, just the odd portent dropped here and there, before it concludes with a long-held shot as such things tend to do. Africa has rarely looked so desolate and there is no doubt this is the work of a director with a sense of her subject.