French director Claire Denis’ new film is called “White Material,” and the title is both metaphorical and entirely literal. (It’s not a translation; the English words are also the French title.) The ...

Film-going is a total experience, so, when I went to see Claire Denis’s White Material in San Francisco this week, I had to sit through an advertisement for visiting South Africa and having a ...

Simultaneously poetic, dramatic and realistic, “White Material” is an altogether stunning work. Directed by Claire Denis and starring Isabelle Huppert in a bravura performance as a woman confronting ...

Claire Denis returns to Africa in “White Material,” a powerful recognition of the continent’s tragic present that focuses on a white plantation owner desperate to hold on to her land, despite roving ...

In a fictional African country, a helicopter hovers over a French coffee plantation, bringing news to the stubborn white owner (Isabelle Huppert) that France is pulling out and leaving the country to ...

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Set in an unnamed African nation convulsed by civil war, a new film by Claire Denis begins with death and ends with total psychic collapse. In between there are humiliation, looting, burning and ...

Early in Claire Denis’s powerful, agonized film “White Material,” you see a woman in a short pink dress, Maria — played by a sublime Isabelle Huppert — hanging off the back of a bus. The setting is a ...

Out of Africa? Isabelle Huppert exudes that signature air of contemplation and intensity that obliges the camera to obey her rhythms White Material is set on a coffee plantation in a former French ...

Demonstrating consummate skill, director Claire Denis is at the top of her game in this universal story of war and unwelcome foreigners. By Sura Wood, The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — With “White ...