Jean Bediere Movies
- 2000
Francois L. Woukoache directs this cinematic triptych about urban life in Yaounde, Cameroon. The first segment concerns an educated youth looking for employment; in the second, a young woman strikes revenge on the guy who killed her dad; and the third explores the dark alleys and sticky fumblings of that city's prostitution racket. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jean Bediere
Set in French Colonial Africa, Chocolat is told from the viewpoint of 8-year-old Cecile Ducasse. With no other frame of reference, the innocent Ducasse accepts the subjugation of the black natives by the white colonists as the natural order of things. The girl grows gradually aware of the social iniquities about her, but only in retrospect (the film is related in flashback, narrated by the grown-up heroine) does she fully realize just how cruel and wrong-headed the entire colonial system had been. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Isaach de Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, (more)
