The film was well received, earning high ratings and appearing in several movie. Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a francophone african state, a white french woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life. Stream tracks and playlists from white material records on your desktop or mobile device. White material is a 2009 french drama film directed by claire denis and cowritten with marie ndiaye the film stars isabelle huppert as maria vial, a struggling french coffee producer in an unnamed frenchspeaking african country, who decides to stay at her coffee plantation in spite of an erupting civil war. Sometimes the transfers for the ifc films look a little soft around the edges but this one looks incredibly sharp and.
White material is a 2009 french film directed by claire denis, starring isabelle huppert and christopher lambert. The same charge could be made against white material. White material 2010 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Isabelle huppert was nominated for a golden lion at the 2009 venice film festival for her captivating performance in this both beautiful and. White material, by claire denis, is set on and around a french familyowned coffee plantation in africa. A hanekestyle family unit complete with a brutally bored son holed up mentally, emotionally, economically and geographically encounters various interlopers while fighting to preserve a bourgeois sense of integrity. At its essence, white material is an exploded chamber drama. An official section of the venice, toronto and new york film festivals. Rent white material 2009 starring isabelle huppert and christopher lambert on dvd and bluray. White is a 2016 indian malayalamlanguage romantic drama film directed by uday ananthan, starring mammootty and huma qureshi in lead roles. Contemporary filmmakers often decide that black and white is an appropriate medium to evoke a sense of the past, as in mel brookss comic homage to. In a considerably darker vein than her recent 35 shots of rum, the film is set in an african country in the throes of a volatile regime change. Molyneux promoted white nationalists, his youtube channel kept growing.
In another country, a series of related vignettes set in south korea, huppert. It marks the debut of qureshi, a bollywood actress, in malayalam cinema. This page should be used solely as reference material for existing implementations. Movies like white material if you like white material you are looking for serious, disturbing and rough movies about with civil war, family relations, chaos, danger, family in danger, family business and political unrest themes of drama and war genre shot in france or cameroon. The film opens with maria vial, a struggling french coffee producer in an unnamed french speaking african country, alone on a deserted road being warned by an overhead french helicopter to leave the area as the french army is leaving. An expanded version of the thing, seth rogen takes on memes and more read more. The hero of white tries to make money by performing in the paris metro. Serving djs, clubs, home stereos, and headphones since 2012. Lintrus and 35 shots of rhum, comes white material. A white french family outlawed in its home and attempting to save its coffee plantation connects with a black hero also embroiled in the. An official selection of the venice, toronto and new york film festivals, the film is a riveting exploration of the complexities of racial conflict and the limits of human will. White material the term is defined as all things owned by or being white in a black culture is a strange little film by the highly respected claire denis who wrote with marie ndiaye and lucie borleteau and directed this rather timeless, nonspecifically placed study of disintegration of family and life somewhere in africa. Yet like everything denis has created, it is shot through with tenderness. It is the veteran french directors toughest work, unsparing with its characters and its audience, a horror film ripped, as they say, from the headlines.
Hes reached the bottom of the barrel, this sad sack migrant from poland whose beautiful wife has divorced him. In white material, the great contemporary french filmmaker claire denis, known for her restless, intimate dramas, introduces an unforgettably crazed character. But he is not a musician, and his instrument a pocket comb with a sheet of paper folded over it doesnt inspire many donations. A nightmare from which no one awakes, claire denis white material 2009 takes place in a nameless african country teetering on the brink of allout civil war.
White material does not behave like a thriller, nor like the traditional handwringing, breastbeating movie about africa, and yet it as lapelgraspingly urgent as either, a movie that remains. Visit using the youtube ddex feed for more information about the new format. White material is a 2009 french drama with english subtitles. In so many films, she is an indomitable force, yet you cant see how she does it. It was shot in budapest, london, bangalore, and kerala. Played by a ferocious isabelle huppert, maria is an entitled white woman living in africa, desperately unwilling to give up her familys crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. Steve martins dead men dont wear plaid 1982 pays tribute to film noir, while movie movie 1978 and young frankenstein 1974 fondly recall the 1930s backstage musical and the 1940s horror film. Sparse in dialogue save for explanatory purposes, the film also has a very spare musical soundtrack save for its theme, composed by longtime musical collaborator stuart staples from tindersticks. Featured movie news once upon a time in hollywood named best picture at the critics choice awards read more. From claire denis, the incomparable director of beau travail, lintrus and 35 shots of rhum, comes white material. Denis revisits africa, this time exploring a place rife with civil and racial conflict. Isabelle huppert is an immoveable object surrounded by unstoppable forces in white material, an incendiary character study and political thriller that showcases. Google allows users to search the web for images, news, products, video, and other content.
White material is a gripping evocation of the death throes of european colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind. Rising from the heart of the tularosa basin is one of the worlds great natural wonders the glistening white sands of new mexico. However, i do very much like the typeheavy poster for white material, which opens in the us next friday, though i prefer the uk quad widescreen version which better conveys the rather corny tagline. Youtube strongly discourages any new implementations of the youtube xml format. Three former paypal employeeschad hurley, steve chen, and jawed karimcreated the service in february 2005. Denis most recent feature, white material 2009, continues the directors preoccupation with sound. Isabelle huppert plays maria, a woman determined to keep her coffee plantation functioning even while social structures are collapsing and her. Rent white material 2009 on dvd and bluray dvd netflix. Ron white delivers more than an hour of all new material with his signature, irreverent storytelling style and the best comedic timing in the business.
White material records free listening on soundcloud. Africa is the ghost that haunts claire denis, and in white material it has its claws out. The youtube xml format is being replaced by ddex music only and csv templates all industries. White material trailer 2010 the criterion collection youtube. The daughter of a civil servant, denis was raised all over the continent, and beginning with her. Deep house and techno record label founded by young male and dj richard. Denis may be drawing from her own life, but her film isnt just autobiography, or about cleansing white guilt. Claire denis longawaited return to africa, 21 years after her debut with chocolat. An official section of the venice, toronto and new york film festivals, the film is a riveting exploration the dark complexities of racial conflict and limits of human will. Master filmmaker claire denis returns with this evocative africanset film starring the electrifying isabelle huppert the piano teacher as a.
White material 2010 as the owner of a coffee plantation in africa, maria isabelle huppert wants only to see her business through the harvest, no matter whats happening around it. White material, which screens until wednesday 2 february in an exclusive australian season at melbournes australian centre for the moving image, unfolds in oblique serrated fashion, which is. The making of a youtube radical the new york times. It tells the story of maria huppert, a white woman in an unnamed african country. Its about the precarious position her characters inhabit in the moment, in a film where time almost ceases to exist, awash in a wave of flashbacks and. Great wavelike dunes of gypsum sand have engulfed 275 square miles of desert, creating the worlds largest gypsum dunefield. Claire denis recent film white material comes to bluray in its original aspect ratio of 2.
White material trailer 2010 the criterion collection. Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a francophone afri. In this drama directed and cowritten by claire denis, isabelle huppert plays maria, a white woman. Isabelle huppert, small and slender, embodies the strength of a fighter. An astronaut on an odyssey to a distant black hole faces the challenges of parenting and existential panic in claire denis superbly eerie, mysterious space drama claire deniss deepspace trauma high life is an old testament parable catapulted forward into the 23rd century, a primal scene in a pressurised cabin of scifi pessimism, suppressed horror and denied panic. White material is a 2009 french film directed by claire denis and cowritten with marie ndiaye. Maria may be white material, but shes not just white material. Youtube is an american online videosharing platform headquartered in san bruno, california. He now has more than 900,000 subscribers, and his videos have been watched nearly 300 million times.
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