Claire Denis: Trouble Every Day
Screening Dates
  • June 7, 2019 8:30
  • June 9, 2019 6:30
Imported 35mm Print

“Deceptively languid, unusually engrossing … This is not your standard portrait of a serial killer … Denis has created a beautifully shaped work that recognizes the dreamlike qualities of even the most awful moments in waking life.”

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

The true-crime case of the ​“Granny Killer” who terrorized Paris’s Montmartre neighbourhood in the 1980s inspired Claire Denis’s moody, mysterious third feature, a study of social alienation and outsider status in French society. The drama centres on a trio of characters: Daïga (Katerina Golubeva), a young Lithuanian actress adrift in Paris; Théo (Alex Descas), a struggling musician who dreams of returning to his native Martinique; and Camille (Richard Courcet), the latter’s younger brother, a drag artist in a sadomasochist relationship with a white boyfriend. Denis’s subversive, elusive, coolly dispassionate film is elegantly shot by her regular DP Agnès Godard. Print courtesy of Institut Français, thanks to the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York.