Lucian Suarez

From Claire Denis, the incomparable director of 'Beau Travail,' 'L'Intrus' and '35 Shots of Rhum,' comes 'White Material': a rich and thrilling account of a woman driven to the edge.

Alain Resnais, one of the towering figures of the French New Wave, demonstrates he still has plenty to say in this drama based on a novel by Christian Gailly.

Germany 1772 -- the young, dashing Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Alexander Fehling) aspires to be a poet, but, after failing his law exams, is sent by his father (Henry Huebchen) to a provincial court to mend his ways.