Review of White Material (2010) by Bill C — 25 Apr 2015
Director Claire Denis paints an empty landscape. While painfully obvious the Vial family doesn't belong here, we aren't really sure why, or even where "here" is. The answers most certainly are not to be found in the vacant stares of the caricatured indigenous under-class.
If you have something to say, say it! The age of the angry African metaphor has passed.
For something definitive, you might want to see Kim Nguyen's 2012 "Rebelle " (War Witch - 2012) or even the "rubber plantation" sequence from Coppola's extended masterpiece "Apocalypse Now Redux" (2001).
This review of White Material (2010) was written by Bill C on 25 Apr 2015.
White Material has generally received positive reviews.
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