As played by Isabelle Huppert in White Material , Claire Denis’ grim, numinous postcard from post-colonial Africa, Maria Vial is an implacable, impossible force in the almost unbearably attenuated body of a young girl. Our first glimpse of Maria, a sylph with thin, floating limbs, finds her running across richly vegetated land in a pink cotton sundress, alone but somehow pursued.
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REVIEW: Isabelle Huppert Stares Down a Revolution in Claire Denis’ White Material
