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Claire Denis |
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| Director
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| 1948 - |
| Born April 21,
Paris, France |
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Production Country: France |
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Genres: Drama,
Psychological Drama, Romance |
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Collaborators: Agnes Godard
(Cinematographer), Gregoire Colin (Leading Player), Arnaud de Moleron
(Production Designer), Jean-Pol Fargeau
(Screenwriter), Alex Descas (Leading Character Player), Nelly Quettier
(Editor), Alice Houri
(Leading Player), Michel Subor (Leading Player), Yekaterina Golubeva
(Leading Player), Bruno Pesery (Producer) |
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Recommended: U.S. Go Home [TV] (1994),
Friday Night (2002) |
| Worth
a Look:
No Fear, No Die (1990), Beau travail (1998) |
| Links: [
IMDB ] [
TCMDB ] [
All-Movie
Guide ] [
Senses of Cinema Interview (2002) ] [
Senses of Cinema Interview (2005) ] [
Kinoeye Feature (2003) ] [
The Guardian: Claire Denis Interviewed by Jonathan Romney ] [
Errata Interview (2004) ] [
Film
Comment Interview (2005) ] [
LA Weekly
Interview (2006) ] [
Screening the Past Article (2006) ] |
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Books:
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Claire Denis (Contemporary Film Directors)
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Claire Denis (French Film Directors)
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| DVD's:
[
Amazon
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1,000 Greatest Films:
Beau travail (1998) |
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21st Century's Most Acclaimed Films:
The Intruder (2004) |
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"So
its clear, I think, how far certain running ideas in French
cinema - evident in the thirties and hurried forward in the New
Wave - are still being pursued. Claire Denis reminds one not
just of the wonder of French cinema, but of its sense of
history." -
David Thomson (The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, 2002) |
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"A
provocative director whose films offer richly textured,
contemplative examinations of cross-cultural tensions and
alienation, Claire Denis is one of French cinema's most
distinctive and humanistic storytellers. A prolific filmmaker
who is more concerned with the drive of her characters rather
than the plot that weaves them together, she has been dubbed by
one critic as one of the only current French directors who "has
been able to reconcile the lyricism of French cinema with the
impulse to capture the often harsh face of contemporary France."" -
Rebecca Flint Marx (All-Movie Guide) |
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"Aside
from their striking visual quality and formal dexterity, Denis'
films exude tender affection for, and solidarity with, a range
of everyday people – exiles, immigrants, sexual transgressives
and alienated urban dwellers – who thrive on the margins of
society. At the same time, much of her work questions the
self-serving assumptions and prejudices of the dominant white
European culture." -
Damon Smith (Senses of Cinema, 2005) |
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