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Title
White material [videorecording] / IFC Films ; Why Not Productions présente ; un coproduction Why Not Productions, Wild Bunch, France 3 Cinéma ; un film de Claire Denis ; scénario, Clair Denis et Marie N'Diaye.
ISBN
9781604654103
1604654104
Published
[New York] : Criterion Collection, [2011]
Physical Description
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([20 p.] ; 19 cm.)
Notes
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2009.
Special features include interviews, deleted scenes, Ecrans Noirs film festival, 2010, trailer.
Cinematography, Yves Cape ; editing, Guy Lecorne ; music, Tindersticks.
French dialogue with optional English subtitles.
Summary
Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.
Format
Images / Video & Film
Language
French
Added to Catalog
May 05, 2011
Series
The Criterion collection ; 560
Credits
Cinematography, Yves Cape ; editing, Guy Lecorne ; music, Tindersticks.
Cast
Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, William Nadylam, Michel Subor.
System details note
DVD; Dolby digital surround; region 1, NTSC; widescreen.
Videorecording number
CC1999D The Criterion Collection
Subjects
Genre/Form
Feature films - France.
Feature films - Cameroon.
War films.
Fiction films.
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