White Material (15)
Fri 16 - Sun 18 Jul
Cinema: £6.50 (£5.25)
Director: Claire Denis
Country: France
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Year of Release: 2009
Subtitled
Certificate: 15
Length of film: 100mins
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Close21 years after her debut with Chocolat, director Claire Denis returns to Africa. In a considerably darker vein that her recent 35 Shots of Rum, the film is set in an African country in the throes of a volatile regime change.
White Material is the dark story of a Frenchwoman’s refusal to give up her coffee plantation – and uproot her family – in an unnamed African country on the brink of civil war.
Isabelle Huppert plays the steely, self-deluding Maria Vial, obstinately continuing the coffee harvest amid the turmoil. Heedless of the French Army’s warnings to evacuate, she carries on even as the plantation’s African workers flee for safety, shrugging off the increasingly baleful portents and threats that close in around her family.
Dates & Times
| Fri 16 Jul | Cinema | 8:30pm | ||
| Sat 17 Jul | Cinema | 6:30pm | ||
| Sun 18 Jul | Cinema | 4:00pm |
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