At its essence, White Material is an exploded chamber drama. A Haneke-style family unit (complete with a brutally bored son) holed up mentally, emotionally, economically and geographically encounters
Claire Denis has not always been well served by her poster artists. Oddly, for a director who has made some of the most beautiful, sensual films of the past twenty years, the posters for her films rarely
Every now and then, Isabelle Huppert is suddenly everywhere and here we are again. She's on the cover of the new Film Comment and she's in the news: Just yesterday, the Playlist's Christopher Bell
A discussion with the French director on her Isabelle Hupper-starring White Material.
No one wants to applaud a filmmaker from moving away from the opaque, the ambiguous, and the open to something more easily defined, but French filmmaker Claire Denis—one of the great artists
"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