Some filmmakers take it upon themselves to spell out every detail of the story they’re sharing on the screen. Director and screenwriter Claire Denis has taken a very different approach in her film
White Material; we never know for certain exactly where we are, when the events onscreen are taking place, or what has caused all this to happen. What Denis
does make clear is that her characters have fallen into a world where all is chaos and dread, and
White Material is a powerful and troubling study of the nexus of power, privilege, arrogance, and violence.
White Material is set in an unnamed African nation, in a time presumably not ...
Released:
2009
Rated:
NR
Length:
102 mins