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(2009) dir Claire Denis w/Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé, Nicolas Duvauchelle [106 min; 35mm]

Denis teams up with another legend of French cinema for this potent rumination on society turned upside down. An electrifying Isabelle Huppert stars as Maria Vial, a woman running a coffee plantation in an unnamed African country which is descending into civil war. As the conflict closes in on the plantation, she refuses to back down, even as tragedy begins to surround her. *Tentative. Please call to confirm.