Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Chocolat is one of those rare films with an entirely mature, adult sensibility; it is made with the complexity and subtlety of a great short story.
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France, West Germany, Cameroon · 1988
Rated PG-13 · 1h 45m
Director Claire Denis
Starring Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet, Jean-Claude Adelin
Genre Drama
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A young Frenchwoman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's house servant, Protée, a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty, and of the intricate nature of relationships in a racist society.
Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert
Chocolat is one of those rare films with an entirely mature, adult sensibility; it is made with the complexity and subtlety of a great short story.
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A dramatic story, based on actual events, about the friendship between two men struggling against apartheid in 1970s South Africa.
A man leaves behind the safety of home to get a black market heart transplant.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
She’s everything. He’s just Ken.
Deaf to the desires of their wives, Alain and Léonard struggle to find their place in a society whose code they can no longer crack.
An unexpected encounter gives a haunted young woman the chance to get revenge…