White Material
France 2009, 106 mins
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Christopher Lambert, Isaach de Bankolé
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Christopher Lambert, Isaach de Bankolé
Bleak, visceral, moving: WHITE MATERIAL is a beautiful and often brutal allegory about modern-day farming conditions in ex-French-occupied Africa.
Isabelle Huppert (THE SEA WALL) leads a powerful cast as a plantation owner who is forced to face up to the growing social unrest that is beginning to beleaguer both her business and her family.
With civil and racial conflicts boiling over in a small African farming community, Maria (Huppert) doggedly fights to keep her coffee plantation alive, blindly ignoring calls from her government and ex-husband André (Lambert, SOUTHLAND TALES) to leave the area.
Returning to Africa, revered French filmmaker Claire Denis (BEAU TRAVAIL) crafts another poignant and highly personal rumination on the effects of colonialism.
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