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Chocolat (1988)

Drama | 105 minutes
3,50 66 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 105 minuten

Country: France / West Germany / Cameroon

Directed by: Claire Denis

Stars: Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi and François Cluzet

IMDb score: 7,3 (4.820)

Releasedate: 18 May 1988

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Chocolat plot

Cameroon in 1954, just before independence. The French Aimée Dalens is married to a representative. However, she is in love with her domestic worker Protée.

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Movsin

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A young woman returns to the African country where she spent her childhood, as the only daughter of a colonial couple, and the film is therefore, except for the beginning and the end, completely devoted to that period.
In addition to a certain bond that arises between the child and the boy of the family (after all, he is by far the most important one she remembers), the creation of an atmosphere around the social relations between white and black is the main theme of this film, which, with the exception of one scene, has a peaceful course.
The dominance of whites, the aloofness and the imposed submissiveness of blacks is clearly emphasized, without any real extreme, shocking images. A typical scene is the black woman who waits patiently on the floor next to the bed for her boss, realizing that she will soon be in that bed for other purposes.
Good film, perhaps presented too quietly - and possibly therefore more truthfully - to attract and impress more viewers.

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De filosoof

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The film is said to be semi-autobiographical and shows how a little white girl - daughter of the governor in Northern Cameroon - lived in colonial Africa. Unfortunately, nothing happens in the film, except that the black servants are ordered around all the time by the governor's wife in particular in her large house. It is clearly an uncomfortable, somewhat ridiculous and intolerable situation that pale-nosed people from a faraway land are lording it over the native Africans on whom they are completely dependent, and the whites are also well aware that they will one day be driven out. The theme is the separation between white and black (the horizon metaphor: where heaven and earth touch can never be reached): the woman and the servant feel sexually attracted to each other but are of course not allowed to touch each other and the servant feels the other way around uncomfortable when a 'crazy' white man moves in his circles of black workers. Of course, the daughter also commands (that is inherent to children anyway), but of course also becomes attached to the servant who spends the whole day with her, so that she expresses the ambivalent attitude and already points to the reversal in the future. That's all fine, but because nothing happens in terms of the story (it's just a memory from the director of what her childhood was like), new white people keep coming to visit to keep the 'story' going or whatever, but that can't disguise the fact that it's story and theme is too thin for a feature film and the film is therefore simply boring.

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