See this film: White Material [with director Claire Denis in person] @ the HFA

Every new film by Claire Denis is a cinematic event, even more so when the great French director is on hand to discuss it afterwards. She'll be doing so at tonight's screening of her most recent film, White Material (2009), which stars the inimitable Isabelle Huppert as the determined French matriarch of a family-run coffee plantation in an African country convulsed by civil war. Tense, eloquent, and disturbing. The Archive is in the Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St, Cambridge | Saturday, January 28 @ 7 pm | $9; $7 students, seniors | 617.495.4700 or hcl.harvard.edu/hfa.