Chocolat
Chocolat
CINEMA1988-05-18
RegionDE / CM
Runtime104 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“Looks back at French colonial Africa through childhood memory and intimate colonial distance.”
Storyline
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.
DIRECTOR / Director
Claire Denis
KEYWORDS
africasexual tensioncolonialismsemi autobiographicalwoman directorcameroon1950s
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Colonial History & Narratives of Resistance
Bloodstained scars left by imperial conquest—the oppressed rising from the ashes to reclaim sacred human sovereignty.
Looks back at French colonial Africa through childhood memory and intimate colonial distance.
