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Claire Denis - news / articles

WIN! Tickets to an Exclusive Preview Screening and Q&A with Claire Denis - 17 June 2010
- -To celebrate the release of director Claire Denis’ return to the screen with White Material, we are giving away a pair of tickets to an exclusive preview screening of the film, followed by a Q&A with Denis.- -After the success of 35 Shots of Rum, Clair

Claire Denis - what members say

Beau Travail review by A customer from London

Masterful, beautifully shot elegy for the warrior ethos 15 September 2004
...rdness of maleness, especially in the context of the military, is taken away by Claire Denis and in its place are shots of defenseless looking shorn heads, tender flesh, pe... Read customer review

Trouble Every Day review by from London

Hugely disappointing 5 June 2004
...The talented French director Claire Denis comes a cropper with this muddled attempt to branch out into the Horror genre. The film initially follows two story strands to uns... Read customer review

Chocolat review by Curlycomments from Surrey

Beautiful Yet Flawed 14 September 2010
...plexities of social and racial stratification are laid out with grace in one of Claire Denis' early films. The acting is not over dramatic, and you can feel the tension bet... Read customer review

Claire Denis - filmography

The Story of Film - An Odyssey (2011)
Starring: Wim Wenders, Stanley Donen, Robert Towne
Director: Mark Cousins
Certificate:
The Story of Film: An Odyssey, written and directed by award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins, is the story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation. Lovingly researched and five years in the making, The Story of Film: An Odyssey covers six continents and 12 decades, ..read more »

85% from 26 members
Not available for rental

White Material - Blu-ray (2009)
Starring: Isaach De Bankolé, Isabelle Huppert, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Director: Claire Denis
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In this drama directed and co-written by Claire Denis (TROUBLE EVERY DAY), Isabelle Huppert (THE PIANO TEACHER) plays Maria, a white woman living in an African nation that has been falling into political chaos. Maria owns a coffee plantation, and regards her property as her personal domain; she ..read more »

56% from 538 members

White Material on DVD (2009)
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Claude Brialy, Nicolas Duvauchelle
Director: Claire Denis
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With the haunting White Material, Claire Denis returns to Africa, the setting for her first, remarkable film, Chocolat. This Africa is torn by civil war and strife. It is a place where children packing automatic rifles patrol the streets and byways of dusty villages, itching for a fight and ..read more »

57% from 2,600 members

35 Shots of Rum on DVD (2008)
Starring: Grégoire Colin, Alex Descas, Mati Diop
Director: Claire Denis
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Time and romantic attraction threaten to sour a family relationship in this drama from writer and director Claire Denis. Lionel (Alex Descas) is a middle-aged widower who makes his living driving a train and shares an apartment with his twenty-something daughter Josephine (Mati Diop). Lionel and ..read more »

59% from 2,309 members

The Intruder on DVD (2004)
Starring: Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Yekaterina Golubeva
Director: Claire Denis
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A reclusive French hermit travels to Korea in a bid to build a ship to sail to Tahiti where he may be reunited with his estranged son... Features an exclusive interview with director Claire Denis

45% from 738 members

Trouble Every Day (2002)
Starring: Vincent Gallo, Beatrice Dalle, Tricia Vessey
Director: Claire Denis
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Claire Denis' TROUBLE EVERY DAY is a spine-tingling chiller. When the young couple Shane (Vincent Gallo) and June Brown (Tricia Vessey) embark on their honeymoon, they share a champagne toast in plush first class seats as they soar over the Atlantic on their way to Paris. Shane pays an extended ..read more »

47% from 1,100 member
Not currently released

Vendredi Soir on DVD (2002)
Starring: Valerie Lemercier, Vincent Lindon
Director: Claire Denis
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Claire Denis' FRIDAY NIGHT, a fantasy that follows a woman into a one-night stand, is an adaptation of the popular novel by Emmanuelle Bernheim who also cowrote the story with Denis. Dreamy and confused, the film begins as Laure (Valerie Lemercier) is packing up her Paris apartment and preparing to ..read more »

51% from 733 members

Beau Travail on DVD (1998)
Starring: Denis Lavant, Gregoire Colin, Michel Subor
Director: Claire Denis
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In loosely adapting Herman Melville's BILLY BUDD, Claire Denis has constructed a dreamy, detached visual poem that is at once somber and gorgeous. Denis transfers the tale's original location from the sea to the sparse landscape of East Africa's Djibouti. The film is narrated by Sergeant Galoup (..read more »

60% from 1,899 member

Chocolat on DVD (1988)
Starring: Isaach De Bankole, Giulia Boschi, Francois Cluzet
Director: Claire Denis
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A young French woman returns to the vast silence of West Africa to contemplate her childhood days in a colonial outpost in Cameroon. Her strongest memories are of the family's houseboy, Protee - a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty - and the intricate nature of relationships in a racist ..read more »

61% from 891 members

Claire Denis facts

5 most recent films

The Story of Film - An Odyssey - 4.5 stars
White Material - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
White Material - 3.0 stars
35 Shots of Rum - 3.0 stars
The Intruder - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Chocolat - 3.0 stars
Beau Travail - 3.0 stars
35 Shots of Rum - 3.0 stars
White Material - 3.0 stars
White Material - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Story of Film - An Odyssey - 4.5 stars
The Intruder - 2.5 stars
Trouble Every Day - 2.5 stars
Vendredi Soir - 2.5 stars
White Material - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Gregoire Colin - 4 times - show films
Alex Descas - 3 times - show films
Isaach De Bankole - 3 times - show films
Grégoire Colin - 3 times - show films
David Gozlan - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Bernardo Bertolucci - 1 times - show films
Mike Figgis - 1 times - show films
Mark Cousins - 1 times - show films

28 Jun 2010
White Material
4 stars out of 5
27 Jun 2007
Golden Door
03 Sep 2011
Parker 'sobbed' over inaccurate gossip article
16 Jun 2010
Africa at the Movies
21 Sep 2009
TIFF Round Up 2009