White Material (15)
Director: Claire Denis
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Isabelle Huppert, who impressed earlier this year in The Sea Wall, is again cast as a French plantation owner struggling to keep hold of her land. Set in an unnamed African country on the brink of civil war, she ignores warnings of the approaching rebel army and refuses to abandon her coffee crops, even when the workers begin to flee.