Sunday, February 25 • 7:30pm

Chocolat
Claire Denis, DCP, 105 min
France / Cameroon, 1988 (French, English)

Official competition, 1988 Cannes Film Festival

Drawing on her own childhood experiences growing up in colonial Cameroon, Claire Denis tells the story of the young France recounting her friendship with the “houseboy” Protée as well as the sexual tension between him and her mother, Aimée. Gradually, the child senses the boundaries that exist between white and black, colonizer and colonized.

Presented as part of the Albertine Cinémathèque program