Chocolat Film Claire Denis

The dalens live in a small town run by the french administration.

Chocolat film claire denis. Cameroon on the brink of independence. Chocolat is a 1988 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.

Other acclaimed works include trouble every day 2001 35 shots of rum 2008 and white material 2009. Marc and aimée dalens françois cluzet and 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. Directed by claire denis.

The film opening today at the cinema studio 2 is the first to be directed by the 41 year old claire denis who wrote the screenplay with jean pol fargeau drawing on her own childhood in what. It is not one of those steamy melodramatic interracial romances where love conquers all. Chocolat is a film of infinite delicacy.

Born 21 april 1946 is a french film director and writer. 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. The serene sophisticated beauty of claire denis chocolat the french writer director s debut feature from 1988 is an elegant perfectly poised character study.

Her feature film beau travail 1999 has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s. Aimée the mother spends most of her days in her yard gardening. With isaach de bankolé giulia boschi françois cluzet jean claude adelin.

Claire denis s award winning autobiographical film traces a young white woman s return to her youth in pre independence french cameroon haunted by strong memories of black african protee the family s houseboy and a man of great nobility intelligence and beauty. 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.