Scientists have engineered perhaps the whitest natural substance, using the same physics behind one ghostly white Southeast Asian beetle. White and black feel like opposites for a reason.

Out of Africa? Isabelle Huppert exudes that signature air of contemplation and intensity that obliges the camera to obey her rhythms White Material is set on a coffee plantation in a former French ...

French director Claire Denis’ new film is called “White Material,” and the title is both metaphorical and entirely literal. (It’s not a translation; the English words are also the French title.) The ...

Claire Denis’s strongest movie in the decade since Beau Travail, her tense, convulsive White Material is a portrait of change and a thing of terrible beauty. The time is unspecified. The subject is ...

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Set in an unnamed African nation convulsed by civil war, a new film by Claire Denis begins with death and ends with total psychic collapse. In between there are humiliation, looting, burning and ...

Scientists in Hong Kong have demonstrated a new ultra-white ceramic material that can drastically cool buildings by reflecting sunlight and heat at record highs. The beetle-inspired material gets its ...

Claire Denis returns to Africa in “White Material,” a powerful recognition of the continent’s tragic present that focuses on a white plantation owner desperate to hold on to her land, despite roving ...

Early in Claire Denis’s powerful, agonized film “White Material,” you see a woman in a short pink dress, Maria — played by a sublime Isabelle Huppert — hanging off the back of a bus. The setting is a ...

Simultaneously poetic, dramatic and realistic, “White Material” is an altogether stunning work. Directed by Claire Denis and starring Isabelle Huppert in a bravura performance as a woman confronting ...