Search results
May 21, 2018 · Only as an adult did Claire Denis realize that she hadn’t been afraid of the lions all those years ago. She suspects that she was too young to be frightened, she has said, and remembers...
- Trouble Every Day
- No Fear, No Die
- Friday Night
- I Can’T Sleep
- White Material
- Nénette and Boni
- Chocolat
- 35 Shots of Rum
- The Intruder
- Beau Travail
Dr Shane Brown and his wife June go to Paris for their honeymoon. Shane also tries to investigate the mysterious low-profile maintained by Dr Keo Semeneau who keeps his wife Coré locked in the house. Coré is obsessed with engaging in sexual activities with men before brutally killing them; her husband helps cover her actions by disposing of the bod...
Poetic and unsettlingly quiet, the film deals with jarring montages of strong and disturbing imagery. Denis’ outlook towards hypermasculine subjects like cockfighting has a sense of quietude and discomfort to it. As the cocks embark on a minuscule carnage, the ones inside the minds of the men are unfathomable. As the cocks are equipped with increas...
Before she moves in with her boyfriend, Laure navigates through the busy Parisian traffic during a transit strike, when she meets a stranger named Jean whom she offers a ride. After cancelling on her friends to grab pizza with this handsome man, she ends up conforming to the ‘sex with a stranger’ fantasy and spends the night with him in a hotel. Th...
As a serial killer, who lusts for the blood of elderly women living alone, terrorises the citizens of Paris, a love story unfolds. As Theo, a man who is constantly bickering with his wife who wants to remain in Paris encounters a Lithuanian immigrant named Daiga, sparks fly. However, the serial killer is on the loose and the police are trying to fi...
In Denis’ highly agonising film set during intense turmoil and racial conflict that breaks out into civil war, young child rebels in a Francophone African state are seen plundering and looting, wreaking havoc. Despite her husband Andre’s pleas to leave, Maria, a white French woman, is determined to save the coffee plantation and the crop. After rec...
Like every other Claire Denis film, Nénette and Boni frustrate the viewers. They are always left wanting more. With close-ups and minute details, Denis evades answering questions that rage through the viewer’s mind. Arbitrary and with more dialogue than usual, the film is sensual and has a metaphysical tinge to it. Denis’ clever artwork with the fi...
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. Her memories circulate around a houseboy named Protee, noble and beautiful, whose sexual tension with her mother was also palpable. their relationship and the beautiful, intr...
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. The father-daughter duo is deeply devoted to each other; despite being aware of his neighbour, Gabrielle, being interested in him as well as the handsome Noe who likes Josephin. The two try and maintain a str...
Emotionally distant and a mercenary, 70-year-old Louis Trebor lives a solitary life with his dogs in an isolated French-Swiss forest. His mounting heart problems require a transplant and he abandons his life of quietude to seek a black market Korean heart transplant. His other motive is to look for his long lost Tahitian son and connect with him. H...
Loosely based on Herman Melville’s Billy Buddwhere Denis replaces the British Royal Navy with the French Foreign Legion, the film is not Travail’s critique of the military regime. She does not employ the female gaze to take a look at the military men; instead, she merely observes the shirtless men carrying on with their daily routine. There is a rh...
Nov 28, 2013 · This touch, however, is not the same lush caress of prior works; the lingering shots of Lindon’s muscular back straining beneath a crisp white shirt or of the nape of Raphaëlle’s neck (an often relished body part in the Denis oeuvre) bespeak vulnerability rather than eroticism.
Jun 4, 2019 · She is so afraid that she becomes practically insensible to danger. It’s as if, for her, confronting danger was more than courage – it was a way to prove to herself that she is strong and that she can make it all by herself.
Denis has often spoken of her shock as a young woman at discovering the novels of Faulkner that have exerted such a major influence over postwar French cinema. For Denis, Faulkner “was a plunge into the senses, into terror and the pain of his characters.” These words describe Denis’ films as well.
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.
People also ask
Was Claire Denis afraid of the Lions?
Why is Claire Denis important?
How does Nénette & Boni feel about Claire Denis?
Did a little blond French girl survive a lion attack?
What did Claire Denis talk to Barry Jenkins about?
How old was Claire Denis when she moved to Cameroon?
Claire: If you want to make a film like OUT OF AFRICA, with lions and beautiful, half-clothed, black people, film producers will not reject your project. NOT A STEREOTYPE: THIERRY, CAMILLE AND RICHARD COURCET
