White Material (Criterion Collection)
In the African heat, one woman stands alone
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: April 12, 2011
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | William Nadylam, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé, Isabelle Huppert & Nicolas Duvauchelle | |
| Directed by | Claire Denis | |
| Screenwriting by | Claire Denis & Marie N'Diaye | |
| Music Performer: | Tindersticks | |
| Composition by | Stuart Staples | |
| Director of Photography: | Yves Cape |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3.5/4 --
White Material is unhurried in its storytelling but unshakable in its impact.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The film's refusal to assert blame or come up with answers about Africa serves as a lesson to filmmakers. Denis paints a complex picture, one that is beguiling, ambiguous and thought provoking.
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The National (UAE)
This haunting drama by Claire Denis burns with a mute fear and rage at the ongoing atrocities in central Africa.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: B+ --
The consistently despairing tone is remarkable, as is Isabelle Huppert's understated and absorbing performance as a woman lost in deep-seated denial and facing an inevitable end.
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San Antonio Current
Rating: 3.5/44 --
A deeply reflective collection of moments, both of great beauty and great horror, and it continues to reveal its treasures upon repeat viewings.
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From the Front Row
Rating: 3/5 --
A thoughtful, if sometimes frustrating, tale of a Frenchwoman caught in the middle of a civil war in an unidentified African country.
Dallas Morning News
Rating: C- --
It's one of those movies where questions like "Why didn't they do that?" or "Wait, what's their relationship?" keep popping up. And for the most part, those questions never get answered.
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Detroit News
Product Description:
In this drama directed and co-written by Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert plays Maria, a white French expatriate living in an African nation that has fallen into political chaos. Maria owns a coffee plantation, and regards her property as her personal domain; she's not about to give up her land, though her stubborn attitude prevents her from admitting that she's putting those close to her in danger, or even acknowledging the gravity of her situation. Maria has two children with her former husband, André (Christopher Lambert), a young adopted boy and dissatisfied twentysomething Manuel (Nicolas Duvauchelle). André is deeply concerned for the safety of Maria and their sons, and has made plans for her and the boys to flee to Europe, but Maria insists that the military will protect her and the others in the area, a belief that seems to be fueled by arrogance rather than fact. WHITE MATERIAL received its North American premiere at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.
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