Thursday, November 25, 2010
White Material - Sunday 28th November 5pm
'There's no better filmmaker working in the world right now.' There, you have it from the horse's mouth: Nick James, editor of our bible Sight & Sound was talking about Claire Denis on the release of her latest film White Material - which we have for you on Sunday. Having burst on the scene with Chocolat in 1988, the first of her films that KFC screened was Beau Travail, made in 1999 and based on French Foreign Legion troops in North Africa. Then a gap, for us, until 35 Shots of Rum, just a year ago - 'a richly textured meditation on family, friendship, love and loss' as it said in our brochure. And then there's the star, Isabelle Huppert, whom you've seen twice recently, in Home and The Sea Wall. Astonishingly she has been nominated for the Best Actress César (France's Oscar) 13 times, but only won it once (for Chabrol's La Cérémonie) but if British she'd surely have been Damed by now.