Amidst turmoil and racial conflict in a Francophone African state, a white French woman fights for her coffee crop, her family and ultimately for her life.
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Claire Denis
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1 win & 10 nominations.
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| Isabelle Huppert | ... | Maria Vial | |
| Christopher Lambert | ... | André Vial (as Christophe Lambert) | |
| Nicolas Duvauchelle | ... | Manuel Vial | |
| William Nadylam | ... | Chérif, le maire | |
| Michel Subor | ... | Henri Vial, le propriétaire | |
| Isaach De Bankolé | ... | Le Boxeur | |
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Adèle Ado | ... | Lucie, la femme d'André |
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Ali Barkai | ... | Jeep, le chef des enfants rebelles |
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Jean-Marie Ahanda | ||
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Martin Poulibe | ||
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Patrice Eya | ||
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Serge Mong | ||
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Mama Njouam | ||
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Thomas Dumerchez | ||
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Christine-Ange Tatah | ||
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Denis revisits Africa, this time exploring a place rife with civil and racial conflict. A white French family outlawed in its home and attempting to save its coffee plantation connects with a black hero also embroiled in the tumult. All try to survive as their world rapidly crumbles around them Written by Pusan International Film Festival
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The scene where Maria goes into her son's bedroom to wake him up was written intentionally long, with numerous throwaway lines, so that it could be cut way down during editing. According to director Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert's line readings were so precise and meaningful that they ended up not cutting a single word. See more »Goofs
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FrenchRelease Date:
24 March 2010 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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Opening Weekend USA:
$34,613, 21 November 2010Gross USA:
$304,020Cumulative Worldwide Gross:
$1,392,434Company Credits
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It is indeed Africa and a violent one truly depicted here. In a former French colony a white woman runs a coffee plantation in a zone ravaged by the fight between the army and rebels. A courageous woman who fights against everything and everybody (Isabelle Huppert),for besides the problems of the plantation she has got family problems with her ex-husband and a half-mad son. A movie that is directed in realistic style as almost documentar although not dimming the dramatic freature of the story. Also a real document of the relationship between Africans and Europeans. A movie worth to be seen though not exactly a masterpiece as far as a few behaviours are not utterly shown nor explained.