The traditional French semi-autobiographical first film, set untraditionally in colonial Africa (Cameroon). Claire Denis, the debuting director, had worked as an assistant to Wim Wenders (and received here some support from his production company), and she has something of his placidness and detachment. She also has something of his effortless camera eye, and consequently there's a lot to look at while waiting for something plotwise to develop. Something eventually does—- between the French wife of the District Officer and their handsome black "houseboy" — but it's nothing much. With Giulia Boschi and Isaach de Bankolé. (1988) — Duncan Shepherd
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