White Material
First screened in November 2010
Director: Claire Denis. Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, William Nadylam, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Isaach de Bankolé, Michel Subor, Ali Barkai, Adèle Ado, Daniel Tchangang. Screenplay: Claire Denis and Marie N'Diaye. Twitter Capsule:
Agonized and fearless, eerily sympathetic, formally electric, like the last visions of someone being burned alive
VOR:⑤
Audiences, juries reject Denis again. What a shame. Political cri de coeur gene-spliced with steely women's film, as abstract in story but sensorily direct as an experimental film.
