| White Material | |
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 Theatrical poster | |
| Directed by | Claire Denis |
| Written by | Claire Denis Marie NDiaye |
| Starring | Isabelle Huppert Christophe Lambert |
| Cinematography | Yves Cape |
| Edited by | Yann Dedet |
| Music by | Stuart Staples |
| Distributed by | Wild Bunch Distribution |
Release date |
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Running time | 106 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| 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]
- ^ "WHITE MATERIAL". JP's Box-Office. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
- ^ "The 21st century's 100 greatest films". BBC. August 23, 2016. Retrieved January 26, 2017.
- ^ 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.