White Material

Posted by Joe Pollack Feb 09, 2011 | Movie: White Material
Isabelle Huppert brings a fierce performance to “White Material,” as she desperately hangs on to the shreds of the past. She owns a coffee plantation somewhere in Africa, but the men and women who have worked there for generations are aflame with the fires of change and they seem to care little whether the change is for the better. French director Clare Denis, who wrote the screenplay with Marie N’Diaye, opens strongly, showing Huppert, in a well-worn pink dress on a dusty road in the African heat, desperately trying to get a ride home to the plantation. When a truck driver allows her to struggle for space among ...

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