Directed by Claire Denis
From the suburbs of Paris to the shores of Tahiti, this trio of films epitomizes the sensuous, elliptical style that undergirds Claire Denis’s reputation as one of the finest filmmakers of her generation. In her intimate worlds, family ties are deep but fraught, old wounds never quite close up, and seduction can prove destructive—but at least the world stops when music plays. Featuring staple players including "Beau Travail"’s Grégoire Colin (who appears in "35 Shots of Rum" and "L’Intrus") and Alex Descas (appearing in all three), each of these films offers a vision that is fractured yet hypnotic, and set to the moody melodies of another of the director’s key collaborators, Stuart A. Staples of Tindersticks.
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35 Shots of Rum
Directed by Claire Denis | 100 mins | 2008
“It’s the best father-daughter movie I can think of. And it’s one of the greatest romances, too… The dance sequence to 'Night Shift' by the Commodores is not able to be described. We are witness to the most magical thing that can happen between two peopl... -
L'Intrus
Directed by Claire Denis | 130 mins | 2004
One of Claire Denis’s most ambitious, complicated, and exhilaratingly daring films charts an itinerary traveling from the snowy Alps to Korea to Tahiti, following an old mercenary (Michel Subor, from "Le Petit Soldat" and "Beau Travail") in search of bot... -
Let the Sunshine In
Directed by Claire Denis | 95 mins | 2017
Claire Denis’s voluptuous riff on "A Lover’s Discourse" by Roland Barthes stars a characteristically radiant Juliette Binoche as Isabelle, a divorced artist in search of swoon-inducing, capital-L love. What she finds, via a series of comedy-laced liaisons...
