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White Material
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"Unsurprisingly devoid of the kind of faux-liberal displacement/wish fulfillment or colonialist superiority that mars so many First World treatments of the subject, Denis' film views the continent as a kind of drug, intoxicating yet perilous, that never leaves the system." –Variety
White Material
Claire Denis, 2009, France, 100m
Set amid an unspecified African civil war, Claire Denis’ White Material is, like her Beau Travail (NYFF 1999), a riveting mosaic of sight and sound, fusing memory and experience, kindness and despair. Denis, who was raised in colonial Africa, sets several narratives in motion to create a searing portrait of a world gone mad. The ever fearless Isabelle Huppert plays a coffee planter whose business and family exemplify an earlier era; she struggles to make sense of what she knew, finding that nothing remains—or is as it seems. Isaach De Bankole appears as a rebel leader whose position has been superseded by a new, crueler generation of armed youth. Denis offers neither apologies nor analysis; instead, with extraordinarily visceral filmmaking, she captures the violence of pent-up rage bursting forth to turn a society upside down.
screening with
Chicken Heads (Roos Djaj)
Bassam Ali Jarbawi, Palestine/USA 2009, 15m
After a moment of disobedience, a youngster faces a dilemma involving the fates of sheep, chickens, a dog and a gazelle.
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For over twenty years— Claire Denis (White Material, NYFF09) has created some of the most challenging, meaningful and unpredictable works of contemporary cinema. She will discuss her unique approach to cinematic storytelling and to working with actors. More Info & Tickets >>
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