White women in racialised spaces, or Claire Denis’s double vision of ‘Africa’

Figures & data

Figure 1. Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog.⁸

Figure 2. Marc Dalens contemplating an African landscape (Chocolat).

Figure 3. A drawing depicting an African landscape in Marc Dalens’s diary, in its owner’s hands (Chocolat).

Figure 4. The same page from Marc Dalens’s diary in the hands of France as a young woman.

Figure 5. The child France ascending a rocky outcrop going up a rock formation in Cameroon (Chocolat).

Figure 6. The child France anchored on top of the outcrop and gazing at the African landscape (Chocolat).

Figure 7. Poster and DVD jacket cover produced by distributors Artificial Eye for Chocolat.¹¹

Figure 8. Dead bodies in the African landscape (White Material).

Figures 9 and 10. Isabelle Huppert’s Maria Vial riding a bus (White Material).