{"id":2049866,"date":"2025-09-25T19:17:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2049866"},"modified":"2025-09-25T19:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T19:17:21","slug":"the-fence-review-matt-dillon-and-isaach-de-bankole-face-off-in-claire-deniss-stagy-but-striking-return-to-west-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-fence-review-matt-dillon-and-isaach-de-bankole-face-off-in-claire-deniss-stagy-but-striking-return-to-west-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Fence\u2019 Review: Matt Dillon and Isaach de Bankol\u00e9 Face Off in Claire Denis\u2019s Stagy but Striking Return to West Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The fence of the title isn\u2019t a terribly imposing one: a utilitarian, standard-issue wire border, easy bent or broken down, and affording no protection from outside eyes. But it\u2019s the heaviest symbol of many in Claire Denis<\/a>\u2019s stripped-back, forthright new film, a barrier between haves and have-nots that proves as fixed and obdurate as the two men on either side of it, and the tensely opposed societies they stand for. On the inside are the outsiders, white western interlopers making would-be intruders of those whose land they\u2019ve stepped on and built on \u2014 \u201ca construction site in West Africa,\u201d as an opening title card simply declares. Many things are simple in \u201cThe Fence<\/a>,\u201d an unusually sharp-cornered and rhetorical work from this typically elliptical and sensuous filmmaker, but the rage swelling beneath its still, mannered surface is not.<\/p>\n

As much as \u201cThe Fence<\/a>\u201d represents a departure for the…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The fence of the title isn\u2019t a terribly imposing one: a utilitarian, standard-issue wire border, easy bent or broken down, and affording no protection from outside eyes. But it\u2019s the heaviest symbol of many in Claire Denis\u2019s stripped-back, forthright new film, a barrier between haves and have-nots that proves as fixed and obdurate as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2049867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2049866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018The-Fence-Review-Matt-Dillon-and-Isaach-de-Bankole-Face.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2049867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}