Isabelle Huppert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Isaach De Bankolé
Taking place in an unnamed African country torn by a rebellion, Maria, a fierce and fearless white woman, refuses to abandon her coffee crops and to acknowledge the danger to which she is exposing her...( read more
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This is probably Denis' most conventional film, almost like her doing an action film. I don't her style is well suited for a movie with so much stuff happening in it, it leaves less room to get a feel on her oblique characters, some of which comes across as too obvious.
A textured panorama of modern day Africa's dynamic and volatile cross-cultural landscape, Claire Denis's White Material is an abstract and elemental, if oddly sterile rumination on colonial legacy and socioeconomic stagnation. Unfolding in episodic flashbacks as second-generation...( read more)
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