White Material (2009)

Directed by

Claire Denis

Genre

drama film, art film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

TP

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 177 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A French woman runs a coffee plantation in an unnamed African country as a civil war erupts around her. She refuses to leave despite the escalating violence and chaos.

tensebleakslow-burnunsettlingvisually starkharrowinggrittyemotionally distant

What happens

White Material is a 2009 French drama film directed by Claire Denis and co-written with Marie NDiaye. The film stars Isabelle Huppert as Maria Vial, a struggling French coffee producer in an unnamed French-speaking African country, who decides to stay at her coffee plantation in spite of an erupting civil war. The film was well received, earning high ratings and appearing in several movie critics' top lists for 2010. White Material was later voted the 97th greatest film since 2000 in an international critics' poll conducted in 2016 by BBC. In 2017 the film was named the fifteenth "Best Film of the 21st Century So Far" in The New York Times. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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