White Material

White Material
Theatrical poster
Directed byClaire Denis
Written byClaire Denis
Marie NDiaye
StarringIsabelle Huppert
Christophe Lambert
CinematographyYves Cape
Edited byYann Dedet
Music byStuart Staples
Distributed byWild Bunch Distribution
Release date
  • 6 September 2009 (2009-09-06)
Running time
106 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$6.3 million
Box office$1.9 million[1]

White Material is a 2009 French drama film directed by Claire Denis and co-written with Marie NDiaye.

The film stars Isabelle Huppert as Maria Vial, a struggling French coffee producer in an unnamed French-speaking African country, who decides to stay at her coffee plantation in spite of an erupting civil war. The film was well received, earning high ratings and appearing in several movie critics' top lists for 2010.

White Material was later voted the 97th greatest film since 2000 in an international critics' poll conducted in 2016 by BBC.[2] In 2017 the film was named the fifteenth "Best Film of the 21st Century So Far" in The New York Times.[3]

  1. ^ "WHITE MATERIAL". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
  2. ^ "The 21st century's 100 greatest films". BBC. August 23, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
  3. ^ Dargis, Manohla; Scott, A.O. (9 June 2017). "The 25 Best Films of the 21st Century...So Far". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 July 2017.