Abstract
Chocolat is a movie made by a women filmmaker named Claire Denis. She lived her youth in Senegal, she made a semi-autobiographic movie to share a part of her life with us and mostly to show the aspect of the woman's life during this colonial time. But in my point of view, even if the story is told through France's flashback, this movie doesn't put in the first line the life of a woman, but shows more the colonial side. Even the title "Chocolat" gives us directly the main subject of the movie, it makes reference to the color of the peoples' skin, and in that case, the main protagonist of it, Protee. Why him? The one telling the story is France, but still, the story begins with him and ends with him; the most repeated name in the movie is Protee, normally, you would say he's the house boy, but he appears in almost all the scenes, even the ones where France is absent. We can go even further by saying that these flashbacks look as though they are told through Protee's eyes, because we can see all his expressions.
