Chocolat

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🎙️ EPISODE 696: 04.14.23 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝙲𝙻𝙰𝙸𝚁𝙴 𝙳𝙴𝙽𝙸𝚂 (𝙵𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚑: [𝚍ə𝚗𝚒];) 𝙳𝙸𝚁𝙴𝙲𝚃𝙾𝚁 𝙵𝙾𝙲𝚄𝚂 𝚜𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 Claire Denis's first feature is as boilerplate as a "semi-autobiographical meditation on African colonialism" can get, I suppose. I am going in pretty cold to this filmography, having only seen the notable French director's most recent film, the Pattinson depression-fest in space, High Life, which I enjoyed quite a bit. This is certainly an exercise in writing what you know, even if what you know is some bad rich white people crap. I feel like a lot of the movie was leading up to the arrival of the shithead character and his fight with Protée, and there was a lot of boring political crap in the middle that felt hollow compared to the visceral hate/love dynamic happing there. Still, the scenes with (excellently portrayed by Isaach de Bankolé) and the young girl are endearing and great, and I will give this film all the benefit of the doubt, as well as the benefit of my own stupidity on historical matters, etc.

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Chocolat is a 1988 French period drama film written and directed by Claire Denis in her directorial debut that follows a young girl who lives with her family in French Cameroon. Marc and Aimée Dalens (François Cluzet and Giulia Boschi) play the parents of protagonist France (Cécile Ducasse), who befriends Protée (Isaach de Bankolé), a Cameroonian who is the family's household servant. The film was entered into the 1988 Cannes Film Festival. It was released on December 10, 1988.