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White Material
(2009)
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Isaach De Bankolé
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 »
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35 Shots of Rum
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Grégoire Colin, Alex Descas, Mati Diop
Director: Claire Denis
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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 »
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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
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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 »
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Trouble Every Day
on DVD
(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 »
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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 »
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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 »
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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...
Hugely disappointing 5 June 2004
