A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon - formerly a colonial outpost - where she's flooded by memories, particularly of Protée, her servant.A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon - formerly a colonial outpost - where she's flooded by memories, particularly of Protée, her servant.A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon - formerly a colonial outpost - where she's flooded by memories, particularly of Protée, her servant.
- Awards
- 1 win & 3 nominations
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn a 1989 interview with Judy Stone, Claire Denis explained that the title, comes from the 1950s slang meaning "to be had, to be cheated", and thus refers to the status in French Cameroon of being black and being cheated; it is also an allusion to Protée's dark-brown skin and the racial fetishism of Africans by Europeans.
- Quotes
Marc Dalens: When you look at the hills, beyond the houses and beyond the trees, where the earth touches the sky, that's the horizon. Tomorrow, in the daytime, I'll show you something. The closer you get to that line, the farther it moves. If you walk towards it, it moves away. It flees from you. I must also explain this to you. You see the line. You see it, but it doesn't exist.
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- Sep 14, 2007
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- Release date
- Countries of origin
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- Also known as
- Chocolate
- Filming locations
- Mindif, Cameroon(Town where the film is set)
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Box office
- Budget
- FRF 1,300,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $2,344,286
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $2,710
- Sep 20, 2015
- Gross worldwide
- $2,344,286
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