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"A fearless French woman attempting to run her family's coffee plantation in an unnamed African country.."might well read "...single minded woman produces reenactment of final scenes of Hamlet." Both the description and the trailer mislead the reader. The character portrayed by Hubbert revealed life lived without grounding eventually
I DON'T SAY THIS OFTEN BUT I JUST 'HATE' THIS MOVIE. MONEY DEFINITELY WASTED! WAS VERY BORED BECAUSE THIS MOVIE IS SO USUAL AND THE SUBTITLES WERE UNREADABLE.; THE PLOT WAS CONFUSING, CHARACTERS WERE CONNECTED BUT FEW AUDIENCE MEMBERS KNEW HOW OR WHY AND I JUST COULDN'T GET OVER HOW ALL THE AFRICANS WERE BEING SLAUGHTERED TO DEATH AND THIS FRENCH
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Variety
Structurally, White Material unfolds like a novel, undoubtedly partly due to the work of Denis' co-scripter, author Marie N'Diaye. That said, it's still very much a Denis film, not just in the complexity of the characters and their motivations -- Huppert shoulders the narrative effortlessly, her strength and direction unwavering -- but in the framework and editing. Full Review
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
Any of Denis' subjects - race, class and colonialism among them - might intimidate a lesser director. But not once in this exquisitely composed film do we see her falter. Full Review
Ella Taylor
NPR
Yet in the end it's less the climactic madness and mayhem in White Material that sear the memory than it is the silent, balletic creep of child soldiers, grabbed out of school and sent with machetes and rifles through a forest to exact revenge for decades of repression. Full Review
J. Hoberman
Village Voice
Astonishingly self-contained and remarkably girlish, Huppert anchors the movie. Full Review
Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal
It's a portrait, by turns chilling, thrilling, mysterious and terrifying, of a woman who refuses to be terrorized. Full Review
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