Claire Denis’s debut film takes her back to Cameroon, which is the setting for a semi-autobiographical meditation on the colonial experience. Denis focuses on the relationship between the young daughter of a white French state official (Cécile Ducasse) and the black servant of the family (Isaach De Bankolé) in the latter days of colonialism. “The experience of white people is always the same. We approach, approach, approach, but we never quite reach the heart of Africa. In Chocolat, I always tried to maintain only the perspective of white people. I just didn’t think I should pretend to understand the black point of view.”  

French spoken, Dutch subtitles