Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Isaach de Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet
France, Germany 1988 | Colour | 105 mins | Drama
Avaliable on: DVD
A French family lives in colonial Cameroon; the daughter, France, befriends a Cameroon native who is their servant. The story is told through France’s eyes, as she notices the houseboy and the sexual tension between him and her mother. As France and her mother try to move beyond the established boundaries between themselves and the native Africans, desires are forced to the surface and tension reigns.