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.
Director:
Claire Denis
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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 | |
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Adèle Ado | ... | Lucie, la femme d'André |
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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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24 March 2010 (France) See more »Also Known As:
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$34,613, 21 November 2010, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
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The role played here by Isabelle Huppert is not dissimilar to the lead character in Doris Lessing's 1950 novel "The Grass is Singing". Huppert always wanted to play that part but Karen Black beat her to it when she appeared in Michael Raeburn's 1981 adaptation. See more »Goofs
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A story of a distressed woman willing to die and sacrifice her own family rather than giving up some acres of land somewhere in the middle of nowhere merely to prove (to none) that she is not afraid.
Isabelle Huppert provides as always an excellent and charming neurotic character. Her character is brave and determined but the whole objective of her determination makes no sense at all.
Overall, the script is pretty poor. It is not certain if the movie wants to talk about female neurosis, ignorant expatriates behavior, social revolution, oppressed against colonizers, black and white or simply tell the story of how someone can get blind by her own ego.
Nice photography of landscapes, some minutes of enjoying to see Huppert acting and absolutely nothing more.