{"id":219,"date":"2017-01-17T14:04:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T19:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/?page_id=219"},"modified":"2023-01-31T14:31:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T19:31:43","slug":"chocolat","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/chocolat\/","title":{"rendered":"Chocolat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 1:\u00a0<em>Chocolat<\/em>\u00a0\/ Claire Denis \/ 1988 \/ 109 min<\/p>\n<p>Introduction: <a href=\"http:\/\/history.vassar.edu\/bios\/joschreier.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joshua Schreier<\/a> (Vassar College, Department of History)<\/p>\n<p>Respondent: <a href=\"http:\/\/french.bard.edu\/faculty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew Amos<\/a> (Bard College, French Studies)<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gtdb4lsd9Ac<\/p>\n<p>Based on Denis\u2019s childhood, <em>Chocolat<\/em> is told through the eyes of a French officer\u2019s daughter in a remote part of Cameroon. After surviving a plane crash in this remote location, a group of colonial administrators and entrepreneurs expose the many tensions underlying the family\u2019s outwardly sleepy existence. As hushed and languid as the plains of Cameroon, the film is full of searing portraits of colonial life.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>This Tourn\u00e9es Film Festival is made possible with the support of the <a href=\"http:\/\/frenchculture.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cultural Services of the French Embassy<\/a> in the U.S., the Centre National du Cin\u00e9ma et de l\u2019Image Anim\u00e9e (CNC), the French American Cultural Fund, Florence Gould Foundation and Highbrow Entertainment. This festival is also supported by a generous <a href=\"http:\/\/humanitiesny.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Humanities New York<\/a> Action Grant (humanitiesny.org).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The festival is cosponsored by the Department of Film, the Women&#8217;s Studies and International Studies Programs, the Dean of Faculty and the VSA French Club.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-336\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/files\/2017\/01\/Tourn\u00e9es-Banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/files\/2017\/01\/Tourn\u00e9es-Banner.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/files\/2017\/01\/Tourn\u00e9es-Banner-300x43.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/files\/2017\/01\/Tourn\u00e9es-Banner-768x110.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/files\/2017\/01\/Tourn\u00e9es-Banner-1024x147.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 1:\u00a0Chocolat\u00a0\/ Claire Denis \/ 1988 \/ 109 min Introduction: Joshua Schreier (Vassar College, Department of History) Respondent: Matthew Amos (Bard College, French Studies) https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gtdb4lsd9Ac Based on Denis\u2019s childhood, Chocolat is told through the eyes of a French officer\u2019s daughter in a remote part of Cameroon. After surviving a plane crash in this remote location, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/chocolat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chocolat<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":527,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-219","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":366,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/219\/revisions\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/tournees-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}