Chocolat Film Claire Denis

Marc the father is hardly ever home.

Chocolat film claire denis. Chocolat claire denis widely noted first feature film which screened at the cannes film festival was certainly inspired by her own childhood in various african places where her father was a colonial administrator but the film remains fictional drawing on other sources as well for instance ferdinand oyono s novel une vie de boy 1956. The dalens live in a small town run by the french administration. 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.

Chocolat 1988 is a french film directed by claire denis about a french family that lives in colonial cameroon. With isaach de bankolé giulia boschi françois cluzet jean claude adelin. Chocolat is a film of infinite delicacy.

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. Born 21 april 1946 is a french film director and writer. 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.

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. 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. Aimée the mother spends most of her days in her yard gardening.

Cameroon on the brink of independence. Her feature film beau travail 1999 has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s. 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. The serene sophisticated beauty of claire denis chocolat the french writer director s debut feature from 1988 is an elegant perfectly poised character study.