Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes71%
Metacritic81/100
123 audience votes
Key crew
- Claire DenisDirector
- Claire DenisWriter
- Jean-Pol FargeauWriter
- Abdullah IbrahimOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Isaach de BankoléProtée
- Giulia BoschiAimée Dalens
- François CluzetMarc Dalens
- Jean-Claude AdelinLuc
- Laurent ArnalMachinard
- Jean BédiébéProsper
- Jean-Quentin ChâtelainCourbassol
- Emmanuelle ChauletMireille Machinard
- Kenneth CranhamJonathan Boothby
- Jacques DenisJoseph Delpich
- Cécile DucasseFrance Dalens (Child)
- Clementine EssonoMarie-Jeanne
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Themes
africasexual tensioncolonialismsemi autobiographicalwoman directorcameroon1950s