“A poignant, haunting study of well-intentioned but doomed folly, embodied by a heroine whose bravery renders her blind to the world that is crumbling around her.”
Nottingham band the Tindersticks lend their lushly melancholy musical sensibilities to Claire Denis' intense drama of racial politics. Isabelle Huppert stars as Maria Vial, a fearless French woman attempting to run her family's coffee plantation in an unnamed African country. Torn apart by civil conflict, this unforgiving setting soon turns its hatred against the foreign family, declaring them outlaws in their new home.
Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher) gives an extraordinary performance as Maria Vial, the formidable owner of a coffee plantation in a former French-African colony. But the country is gripped by civil war and her terrified workers flee as increasingly violent clashes between the army and the rebel militia grow ever nearer.