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In films such as I Can't Sleep (1994) and Nénette and Boni (1996), Denis captures the mercurial and instant shifts in tone, from the pleasurably sensual to the menacing or the simply unaccountable, caused by the intrusion of the strange into the fabric of the everyday.
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- 7 High Life
- 6 Both Sides of The Blade
- 5 White Material
- 4 35 Shots of Rum
- 3 Chocolat
- 2 The Intruder
- 1 Beau Travail
In her English-language debut, High Life, Denis takes Robert Pattinson on an erotic one-way space odyssey. The film follows a group of criminals turned astronauts on a mission toward a black hole. Juliette Binoche’s Dr. Dibs fixates on trying to create a child in space because the mission will be longer than a human lifespan. After the mystery of w...
The 2022 drama Both Sides of the Blade (also known as Fire) is a sensual tale of love from the past that comes back to haunt the main character of the film, Sara (played by Juliette Binoche). The intimate intensity of a love triangle between Sara and two men, present long-time partner (Vincent Lindon) and former lover (Grégoire Colin), is at the he...
The 2008 drama White Material follows Maria (Isabelle Huppert), a white French farmer running a coffee plantation in an unnamed African country convulsed by civil war. Everything is falling apart, but Maria refuses to leave and fights for her plantation. Dark examination of race, White Material is described by The New York Timesas "a specific film ...
Inspired by one of the best movies from Japanese filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu, Late Spring, the 2008 drama 35 Shots of Rum centers on widower Lionel (Alex Descas) and his daughter Josephine (Mati Diop), who is eager to leave the parental nest. 35 Shots of Rumdelves deep and gently not only into the tender relationships between a father and daughter but a...
Denis recalled her experiences growing up in colonial French Africa for her 1988 amazingly assured debut, Chocolat. Described by Denisas "a sort of statement of my own childhood, recognizing I experienced something from the end of the colonial era and the beginning of independence as I was a child that really made me aware of things I never forgot,...
One of the most purely enigmatic film-poems, Denis’ 2004 drama The Intruder provides a glimpse into the psyche of an emotionally cold 70-year-old loner Louis Trebor (played by Jean-Luc Godard's Le petit soldat star Michel Subor). Trebor leaves the quietude of his life in Alpine home to seek a black market Korean heart transplant and to look for a s...
Centered on the soldiers of the French Foreign Legion in desert landscapes of the former French colony in East Africa, the 1999 drama Beau Travail (French for "good work") is a poetic meditation on being a foreigner to oneself. The film follows sergeant Galoup (Denis Lavant), who goes out of his head with jealousy when a striking young recruit Sent...
- Beau Travail (1999) Loosely based on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd where Denis replaces the British Royal Navy with the French Foreign Legion, the film is not Travail’s critique of the military regime.
- The Intruder (2004) Emotionally distant and a mercenary, 70-year-old Louis Trebor lives a solitary life with his dogs in an isolated French-Swiss forest.
- 35 Shots of Rum (2008) Lionel is a widower and an RER train driver in Paris who shares a special bond with his daughter Josephine whom he has singlehandedly raised.
- Chocolat (1988) France is a young woman who returns to the uneasy vastness of the silent West Africa and is immediately consumed by memories of childhood where she spent her days in Cameroon.
Claire Denis (French:; born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and screenwriter. Her feature film Beau Travail (1999) has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s and of all time.
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