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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Claire Denis’ directing debut, 1988’s “Chocolat,” was a beautiful, bittersweet autobiographical reverie about a French colonial girl growing up in West Africa. The extraordinarily talented filmmaker’s ...

Huppert plays Maria Vial, a woman running a coffee plantation in an African country while a civil war rages around her. Aside from being in the middle of political unrest, she also becomes a target of ...

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, ...

In Villa Amalia a betrayed wife dumps every vestige of her marital existence to embark on an Italian mystery tour. In The Sea Wall a widowed plantation owner in Indochina fights a losing battle ...

Wednesday and Thursday had the Los Angeles Film Festival be the host to a number of events including a conversation with Sylvester Stallone, and a poolside chat about twitter featuring Richard Kelly ...

Directed by Claire Denis. Starring Isabelle Huppert, Isaach De Bankole, Christophe Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, William Nadylam 15A cert, limited release, 106 min NOW 62, Claire Denis has, over the ...