Looking like a bleached bone — the whitest person in a French African colony disintegrating into “liberty” — Isabelle Huppert holds on to her coffee plantation like Scarlett defending Tara. Huppert has the sly charisma of a veteran star. Director Claire Denis’s feeling for racial and cultural collision is acute, but this is a schematic brooder. Its dying rebel leader is a sort of Jesus Lumumba, and Huppert’s wastrel son is a symbol of racism flipping into radical chic. The tensions outclass the ideas. (2010) — David Elliott
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