Foreign Legion officer, Galoup, recalls his once glorious life, leading troops in the Gulf of Djibouti. Read More »
Tag Archives: Claire Denis
Chocolat (1988) Claire Denis, Isaach De Bankolé, Giulia Boschi, François Cluzet
A French woman returns to her childhood home in Cameroon Read More »
Nenette and Boni AKA Nénette et Boni (1996) Claire Denis, Grégoire Colin, Alice Houri, Jacques Nolot
Teenage siblings Nenette and Boni were raised apart as a result of their parents’ divorce. Read More »
No Fear, No Die AKA S’en fout la mort (1990) Claire Denis, Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas, Solveig Dommartin
Natives of Benin and the West Indies, Dah and Jocelyn form a fine team. Read More »
Jacques Rivette – The Night Watchman AKA Jacques Rivette – Le veilleur (1994) Claire Denis, Serge Daney, Jacques Rivette, Bulle Ogier
This film of interviews with the film director Jacques Rivette was produced in collaboration with Serge Daney Read More »
Bastards AKA Les salauds (2013) Claire Denis, Vincent Lindon, Chiara Mastroianni, Julie Bataille
Supertanker captain Marco Silvestri is called back urgently to Paris. Read More »
The Intruder AKA L’intrus (2004) Claire Denis, Michel Subor, Grégoire Colin, Yekaterina Golubeva
Louis Trebor, a man nearing 70, lives alone with dogs in the forest near the French-Swiss border. Read More »
Keep It for Yourself (1991) Claire Denis, Sophie Simon, Sarina Chan, Vincent Gallo
Sophie comes to New York from France with the intention of joining a man she met a few months before. Read More »
35 Shots of Rum (2008) Claire Denis, Alex Descas, Mati Diop, Nicole Dogué
The relationship between a father and daughter is complicated by the arrival of a handsome young man. Read More »
White Material (2009) Claire Denis, Isabelle Huppert, Christopher Lambert, Isaach De Bankolé
Denis revisits Africa, this time exploring a place rife with civil and racial conflict. Read More »
US Go Home (1994) Claire Denis, Alice Houri, Jessica Tharaud, Grégoire Colin
The 1960’s: Martine lives with her mother in a Parisian suburb near an American military base. Read More »
J’ai pas sommeil / I Can’t Sleep (1994) Claire Denis, Yekaterina Golubeva, Richard Courcet, Vincent Dupont, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Beautiful Daiga has emigrated from Lithuania to Paris and is looking for a place to stay and work. Theo is a struggling musician, and his brother Camille – a transvestite dancer. Read More »
Vers Mathilde (2005) Claire Denis, Mathilde Monnier, Documentary
The french choreographer Mathilde Monnier and her preparation for her next performance is the main focus of this documentary. The choreography’s practices and the bodies, everything is registered in some sort of anthropological way by the filmmaker’s camera.
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Vendredi soir / Friday Night (2002) Claire Denis, Valérie Lemercier, Vincent Lindon, Hélène de Saint-Père, Drama, Romance
Having packed up her possessions to move in with her lover, Laure is more unsettled than she appears. Needing to get out and have a change of scenery, she jumps in her car to go to have dinner with friends–only to become stuck in a terrible traffic jam. Laure completely forgot about the mass transit strike that has thrown the city into chaos. But Laure feels good in her car, the only place she has for herself right now. As she takes in the sights and sounds around her–the blare of horns and arguments, the shimmer of lights and camaraderie–Laure notices a calm and self-assured stranger, Jean, approach her car. Soon thereafter, she opens her car door door to the man who–that night–will change her life.
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