Articles and interviews related to Claire Denis and ‘Chocolat’, which was screened at the Institut français d’Écosse on the 18th of October 2024
Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t seen the film, please note that key plot elements may be described or shown in the material listed below.
“It’s not fun to be in pain with film”: Claire Denis looks back on Chocolat and a life of cinephilia (Sam Wigley, BFI, 27 May 2024)
Chocolat – review (Roger Ebert, May 12, 1989)
Claire Denis Biography: life and films (FrenchFilms.org)
Analysis of Chcolat via Central Oregon Community College https://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/Chocolat.htm
‘Protege! Would you use that word for a man?’ Claire Denis on rum, Africa and rethinking MeToo (Claire Armitstead, The Guardian, 9 June 2023)
White women in racialised spaces, or Claire Denis’s double vision of ‘Africa’ (Laura Ceia, French Screen Studies, Volume 24, 2024 – Issue 3, pages 284-303 | Published online: 24 May 2023)