CHOCOLAT (1988)
Special Features: New 4K Restoration; 35th Anniversary
Master filmmaker Claire Denis (BEAU TRAVAIL, WHITE MATERIAL) drew on her own childhood experiences growing up in colonial French Africa for her multilayered, languorously absorbing feature debut, which explores many of the themes that would recur throughout her later work. Returning to the Cameroonian town where she grew up after many years living in France, a white woman (Mireille Perrier) reflects on her relationship with Protée (Isaach De Bankolé), a Black servant with whom she formed a friendship as a child while not fully grasping the racial divides that governed their worlds. (Note adapted from Janus Films.) DIR/SCR Claire Denis; SCR Jean-Pol Fargeau; PROD Alain Belmondo, Gérard Crosnier. France/West Germany/Cameroon, 1988, color, 105 min. In English and French with English subtitles. RATED PG-13
New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Claire Denis, with a mono soundtrack. Restoration made by the laboratory Eclair Classics from the original feature negative with the colorist Bruno Patin and Diego Mercuriali and with the director of photography Robert Alazraki.
AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 105 Minutes
Opening Date: Monday, May 08, 2023
Genre: Drama
