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 ...

“White Material,” the latest film by internationally celebrated director Claire Denis, opens with a vision of violent apocalypse. The house of French plantation owner Maria Vial (Isabelle Huppert) ...

Plenty of associations come to mind when one thinks of a Claire Denis film; the French auteur’s work is intelligent, nuanced, and frankly, often slow. Denis approaches her films like a sculptor, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...