#7. WHITE MATERIAL
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Isaach De Bankolé, Christophe Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, William Nadylam
Distributor: Rights Available.
Buzz: Making this two in two years, (Cinema Guild is releasing 35 Shots of Rum in Sept.), for those keeping tabs on Denis’ filmography, this is a return to sources for the helmer. She made her seminal film debut Chocolat (the 1988 film folks, not the overrated Lasse Hallström drama rom) and for those who know her own history, Africa was a part of her childhood. This also counts as a reunion with De Bankolé.
Gist: Scripted by novelist Marie Ndiaye, in an unnamed African country torn by rebellion, Maria, an indomitable white woman, refuses to abandon her coffee crops, or to acknowledge the danger to which she is exposing her family. For Maria, to leave would be to surrender… André – her ex-husband and father of their son – is frightened by her stubborn pride. Without her knowing, he sets about arranging the family’s escape to France. He has married again, a young African woman with whom he has a son, and for them he will stop at nothing. Not even at betraying Maria by placing her destiny.
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