White Material

The film, starring Isabelle Huppert, deals with chaos, cruelty and a woman's fierce strength in Africa.

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 armed chaos in Africa, this is filmmaking that is at once exhilarating and chilling, powerful and powerfully disturbing. Though not a marquee name in this country, French director Denis is so respected internationally that the British film journal Sight & Sound declared "there is no better filmmaker working in the world right now. [...]

di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (4000 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 26 novembre 2010