Chocolate

Chocolate

  • Claire Denis
  • 1988
  • 1h 45m
  • Cameroun, West Germany, France

The great Claire Denis's first feature film remains the best cinematic capture of the vastness and warmth of the African continent, reflected through the end of colonialism and the fragmentation of memory.

Synopsis

A French woman returns to her ancestral home in Cameroon, the first colonial plantation, and there she remembers her childhood, with an emphasis on her unexpected relationship with a black servant.

Chocolate
Details
Director
Also known as
Chocolat | Σοκολάτα
Festival screenings
Language
Subtitles
Age rating
15+

Official Selection

Cannes Film Festival

1988

Creative Europe Media
European Union
EPAnEK
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