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.

Cast

Isaach de Bankolé

as Protée

Giulia Boschi

as Aimée Dalens

François Cluzet

as Marc Dalens

Jean-Claude Adelin

as Luc

Laurent Arnal

as Machinard

Jean Bédiébé

as Prosper

Jean-Quentin Châtelain

as Courbassol

Emmanuelle Chaulet

as Mireille Machinard

Kenneth Cranham

as Jonathan Boothby

Jacques Denis

as Joseph Delpich

Reviews

CinemaSerf

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...

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