White Material is a 2009 French film directed by Claire Denis and co-written with Marie NDiaye. The films stars Isabelle Huppert as Maria Vial, a struggling French coffee producer in an unnamed African country, who decides to stay at her coffee plantation in spite of an erupting civil war. The film was very well received, earning high ratings and appearing in several movie critics' top lists for 2010. Maria is a white farmer who runs a failing coffee plantation in an unnamed African country in the present day. Civil war has broken out and rebel soldiers, many of them child soldiers, are... advancing on the area. Rebels on the radio advocate attacks on emblems of colonialism. Maria's workers leave, but she refuses to abandon the plantation, and searches for men to finish harvesting of the coffee. As she and her family await the inevitable, the tensions in their personal relationships, and in their relations with the African community, become exposed. Maria puts the farm in even more danger when she looks after a wounded rebel officer known as 'The Boxer'.
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| Release date: | March 24, 2010 |
| Directed by: | Claire Denis |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | Pascal Caucheteux |
| Editor: | Guy Lecorne |
| Music by: | Stuart S. Staples |
| Cinematography: | Yves Cape |
| Screenplay by: | Claire Denis, Marie NDiaye |