White Material

“That brings me to Claire. This is one of my favorites of Claire’s: White Material. And it stars Isabelle Huppert, among others. And it’s interesting because the film that I did with Claire recently was a play by a really, really interesting playwright named Bernard-Marie Koltès, who was originally slated to write this film. But that didn’t happen. But this is a really interesting, really interesting film shot in Cameroon.”

“Oh, gosh, White Material. Claire Denis, man.”

“This is White Material. I just love the sensibility and the sensuality of Claire Denis and the way she elevates kind of everyday moments to be very sensible and very like I'm always almost there you know I can smell stuff I can feel stuff when I see her films.”

“White Material. Claire Denis. Claire Denis is someone that meant a lot. I think Claire Denis has helped my generation of filmmakers develop a sense of mise-en-scène, her way of using handheld with her cinematographer Agnès Godard has been very inspiring to me and many people I know and this has the lovely Isabelle Huppert who I've been fortunate enough to work with myself in the lead.”

“White Material. The great contemporary French filmmaker Claire Denis, known for her restless, intimate dramas, introduced an unforgettably crazed character played by a ferocious Isabelle Huppert. Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation.”