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2009 | Color | 106:00

Civil war has broken out and rebel militias, including child soldiers, advance under the almost mystical leadership of "The Boxer" (Isaach De Bankolé). In this threatening and visceral, violent and primitive context, Maria Vial (Isabelle Huppert), proud to feel that land as her own, refuses to leave the coffee plantation where she lives with her family, a nucleus of confused relationships destined to disintegrate. With these plot coordinates, Claire Denis models a political, sensory and organic artifact, a hallmark of her cinema, supported once again by the powerful musical atmospheres of Stuart A. Staples of the Tindersticks. With an admirable use of the scope, the camera, which seems to breathe, closes its circle on the face of Maria, a carnal and obstinate woman, who is nothing more than a lonely and autonomous soul, forced to fight for each conquest: whether she likes it or not. , your skin is your border...


Country: Camerún, Francia
Direction: Denis; Claire
Script: Denis; Claire, N'diaye; Marie
Production: Caucheteux; Pascal, Saint-Père; Abiassi
Photography: Cape; Yves
Music: Staples; Stuart A.
Cast:Huppert; Isabelle, Lambert; Christopher, Duvauchelle; Nicolas, De Bankolé; Isaach, Nadylam; William, Subor; Michel
Participation year at FICM: 2022

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