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Jun 7, 2012 · In this essay making the case for contenders in S&S’s poll to find the Greatest Film of All Time, we revisit Beau Travail, Claire Denis’s rapturous 1998 exploration of male identity in crisis.
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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...
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.
May 21, 2018 · Onward and Upward With the Arts. The Fearless Cinema of Claire Denis. In “High Life,” the filmmaker’s English-language début, Denis set out to tell the story of the last person in the world....
Sep 14, 2016 · The French auteur is prepping to make her English-language film with a Robert Pattinson-starring sci-fi. And these four films will be why you're excited.
Claire Denis is a French filmmaker known for her distinct visual style and her explorations of themes such as colonialism, identity, and human relationships. Her films often employ non-linear narratives and poetic imagery to evoke complex emotions and questions about the human experience.
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Apr 5, 2019 · The 72-year-old Denis has long been one of the world’s greatest narrative filmmakers. You can find several reasons why in the American Cinematheque’s forthcoming mini-retrospective of her work at...
