Review of White Material

WHITE MATERIAL – CATCH IT ( B- ) White material is complex and gritty no doubt about that. Kudos for choosing an unusual story about a French woman, who refuse to leave Africa during racial disputes. Nonetheless the story is fascinating but the movie is really slow and multifaceted. Somehow the director didn't try to educate the viewers, she just pick up the story and presented in a way that everything we our self have to assume. What if I am a lame person and don't know what happens in Africa time to time?? I think a movie should be a complete package. For example, during the Most Gritty & Important scene, when gangster kids enter Manuel's house and on hearing Manuel (Nicholas Duvauchelle) waking up they run off. Manuel then follows them in the jungle and then Manuel injure his foot and suddenly in a Snap we see African Gansta kids holding Manual's head and snatching his chain, cutting his hairs with machete, after that they leave him entirely naked in the fields. I didn't get the editing in the scene, at one second the kids were far away looking at him turning back home and in the next scene they were holding him down. (WHY we have to suppose they suddenly grape him). After that the drastic behavior of the Manuel is understandable to an extent but there have been many scenes where the Editing has been roughly done like that even in the Last Scene we see Maria (Isabelle Huppert) coming towards her house, then in Next Second she is on top of storage room and sees her Son's body Burned Alive and in next second she is Killing her father-in-law with machete because she believes he is the reason she has spend all her life in Africa (That's what I got from the ending, I really have to search more to get what does that meant). So, the whole movie moves with a very slow pace and then in important scenes it move like Flash speed. That was Annoying!! Isabelle Huppert was excellent though it requires smart thinking to appreciate her performance, because she is not the women we see and meet in our daily life. She is strong, stronger than Men actually. Nicholas Duvauchelle is Amazing; he is a French ALEX PETTYFER, smart, bold, sexy and super talented. Overall, watch it for some really smart moments and Isabelle Huppert & Nicholas Duvauchelle Brilliant performance.