White Material
directed by:
Claire Denis with:
Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Isaach De Bankolé Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Claire Denis (Beau Travail, L’intrus and 35 Shots of Rum), White Material is set in an anonymous French-speaking African country. It features Isabelle Huppert as Maria, a divorced woman trying to run a coffee plantation while her son spends his days in bed. Her father-in-law is sick and her ex-husband keeps telling her that she should return home. Civil war has broken out, and the family is in imminent danger.
Nominated, Golden Lion - Venice Film Festival 2009
White Material does not behave like a "thriller", nor like the traditional hand-wringing, breast-beating movie about Africa, and yet it as lapel-graspingly urgent as either, a movie that remains in the mind long after it has finished.
(Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian)
4.30 6.30
Sunday 5th December
Savoy, Penzance
8.45
Monday 6th December
Savoy, Penzance
8.30
Tuesday 7th December
Royal, St Ives
6.00
Wednesday 8th December
Royal, St Ives
France | Cameroon
2009
106m
15
