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13 hours ago'One Spoon Of Chocolate' Is A Charmingly Messy Blaxploitation Throwback
One Spoon of Chocolate embodies a unique artistic ethos, blending various cinematic influences reminiscent of Wu-Tang Clan's innovative sound.
The face of a Syrian refugee is the enigmatic key to this slow-burning drama-thriller, the fiction feature debut of French film-maker Jonathan Millet; it is hard, blank, withdrawn, yet showing us an inexpressible agony, a suppressed, unprocessed trauma, complicated by what is evidently a new strategic wariness. The refugee is Hamid (played by Adam Bessa), a former literature professor from Aleppo who is now in Strasbourg in France in 2016,