Chocolat
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.
- 6.9
- 1988
- Released
- 1h 44m
Isaach de Bankolé
Protée
Giulia Boschi
Aimée Dalens
François Cluzet
Marc Dalens
Jean-Claude Adelin
Luc
Laurent Arnal
Machinard
Jean Bédiébé
Prosper
Jean-Quentin Châtelain
Courbassol
Emmanuelle Chaulet
Mireille Machinard
Kenneth Cranham
Jonathan Boothby
Jacques Denis
Joseph DelpichCécile Ducasse
France Dalens (Child)Clementine Essono
Marie-Jeanne
Didier Flamand
Captain Védrine
Essindi Mindja
Blaise
Mireille Perrier
France DalensEmmet Judson Williamson
William J. ParkDonatus Ngala
Edwige Nto Ngon a Zock
Philemon Blake Ondoua
Hervé Abah
Saïdou Abatcha
Alain Artur
Jean-Marc Bamdiran
Tadfor Kamajou
Saïdou Karim
Agnes Ndoumbe
Ian Stapel
Hélène Vauquois
Released
fr
- #africa
- #sexual tension
- #colonialism
- #semi autobiographical
- #woman director
- #cameroon
- #1950s
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I found there something really quite erotic about parts of this drama as we reminisce with “France” (Mireille Perrier) as she returns to the now independent Cameroon where she grew up. Her father “Marc” (François Cluzet) is a well-meaning colonial administrator in an out of the way province and that’s where she lives with her mother “Aimée” (Giulia Boschi) and their local and stunningly handsome f