White Material
Claire Denis has always been a poet of mood and moment, and here succeeds in linking these skills to the creation of a story with oppressive tension and atmosphere. White Material could be her best film (...): a disturbing piece of work whose power and grip increase, almost imperceptibly, as the film progresses to its awful and inevitable conclusion.
Isabelle Huppert plays Maria Vial, a coffee farmer in an unnamed African state (...) which is in meltdown. There is lawlessness on the streets and, as in Rwanda, radio DJs pour out inflammatory broadcasts. The colonial whites are being blamed. Every day is more dangerous for Maria, but she stubbornly refuses to leave.
(...) White Material does not behave like a "thriller", nor like the traditional hand-wringing, breast-beating movie about Africa, and yet it as lapel-graspingly urgent as either, a movie that remains in the mind long after it has finished.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Original title: Beli, Beli Svet
Duration: 102 min
Dialogue: French
Subtitles: English
Age limit: K15
