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	Claire Denis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Claire Denis (born April 21, 1948) is a Paris-based filmmaker internationally known for her investigation of the human condition with its cross-cultural tensions and family troubles.
		Denis was a bandleader, worked as actress, notably in Venus Beauty Institute (2000), and directed for French TV.
		Claire Denis teaches Cinema as Cultural Anthropology at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where she examines contemporary filmmaking as exploration into multi-ethnic and cross-cultural environments, with the cool passion and distanced engagement of an anthropologist.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Claire_Denis (245 words)

	NYFF '99: The Dangers of Intuition, the Poetry of Claire Denis
		Denis situates her story in a French Foreign Legion outpost in the African republic of Djibouti, the modern equivalent of Melville's ship in the middle of the wartime sea.
		Denis says that her main interest in tackling "Billy Budd" was to explore the character of Claggart, the sadistic master of arms whose maliciousness leads to Billy Budd's death.
		Denis does not seem as concerned with justice as Melville (or Peter Ustinov, who directed the 1962 film version) was.
	www.indiewire.com /onthescene/fes_99NYFF_990928_denis.html (774 words)

	Kinoeye \| French film: Claire Denis' Trouble Every Day (2001)
		Such an artificial wedge arbitrarily driven between affects and the intellect could not, however, be farther away from Denis' cinematic approach to and treatment of the nuances of sensation(s), the tender and/or violent choreography of now mortal, now deadly bodies, the ripples of desire on the surface of the human skin.
		As Denis notes apropos of her treatment of a notorious serial killer case with multiple gender, social and racial implications in J'ai pas sommeil (I Can't Sleep, 1993): "For me, the monster is invisible.
		As Denis explained in an interview with Jean-Michel Frodon,[6] her film—as well as Olivier Assayas's Irma Vep (1997), a nostalgic yet playful homage to Louis Feuillade's silent crime serial, Les Vampires (1915-1916), and its anagrammatic heroine—grew out of a later abandoned anthology film project with Assayas and Atom Egoyan.
	www.kinoeye.org /03/07/met07.php (2149 words)

	"Claire Denis" by Martine Beugnet
		Denis is an heir in that respect not only to the French nouvelle vague of the 1960s but also to New German Cinema of the 1970s, to Wenders, Herzog and Fassbinder, a true daughter of modernism who is transformative rather than prodigal.
		Denis makes of it a tough and demanding encounter, her way perhaps of transposing the ambivalence we feel for Peter Lorre's child murderer in M's (Fritz Lang, 1931) criminal court sequence to another city and another age, where one of the killers is fl and gay and his victims white.
		Denis may be an innovator but she also remains a natural storyteller and one who films stories worth telling, stories that are very local but also, at her best, coherent and universal.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/books/05/37/claire_denis.html (2434 words)

	Chocolat (1988; Dir. Claire Denis) Film Guide & Resources
		Claire Denis's award-winning autobiographical film traces a young white woman’s return to her youth in pre-independence French Cameroon, haunted by strong memories of fl African Protee, the family's "houseboy" and a man of great nobility, intelligence and beauty.
		Film Title Allusion: In a 1989 interview with Judy Stone, Claire Denis explained that she “employed the term Chocolat for its 1950s slang meaning, ‘to be had, to be cheated,’ and therefore the word's association of ‘to be fl and to be cheated’” (cited in Sandars).
		Director Claire Denis invents her own “metaphor of the horizon” to represent “the line of difference, visible but illusory, that depends entirely on the position and perspective of the observer” (Morgan 149).
	web.cocc.edu /cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/chocolat.htm (5875 words)

	Claire Denis -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Claire Denis (born April 21, 1948) is a (The capital and largest city of France; and international center of culture and commerce) Paris-based (A producer of motion pictures) filmmaker internationally known for her investigation of the human condition with its cross-cultural tensions and family troubles.
		Denis was born in Paris, (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) France.
		Her debut feature film Chocolat (1988), a meditation on (Exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country) colonialism, won her critical acclaim.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cl/claire_denis.htm (144 words)

	Claire Denis - Professor of Film - Biography
		Claire Denis is a Paris-based filmmaker internationally recognized for her fearless investigation of the human condition with its cross-cultural tensions and family troubles.
		Denis is a graduate of IDHEC, the French Film School, and served as assistant to Jacques Rivette, Costa-Gavras, Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders.
		Claire Denis is a professor of film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he conducts an Intensive Summer Seminar.
	www.egs.edu /faculty/denis.html (181 words)

	Errata: Commentary Track
		Denis' films are as graceful as they come, bold and musical, somehow warm and intelligent at the same time, and they're so subtle that they often seem to work on a subconscious level.
		Denis (pronounced duh-NEE) is the co-writer of all of her films, not just the director of other people's stories, and she draws inspiration from a wide variety of human expression — music and novels, Neil Young and William Faulkner — and from her own experience growing up in Africa and France.
		Denis is so genereous and thoughful that it's hard for an interview with her not to contain a few fascinating nuggets.
	www.erratamag.com /archives/2004/12/intruding_beaut.html (3281 words)

	Kinoeye \| French film: Claire Denis' Chocolat (1988)
		Denis works to highlight this by mapping out the house in terms of racial spaces, which are also demarcated as public or private ones.
		Denis here highlights the fact that Aimée is separated and alone, with the expanse of the porch surrounding her.
		Denis' insistence on confronting these fields of desire and attempting to define and investigate them through cinema, however, seems to suggest that it is within these very visual fields that the battle against colonialism and racial inequities must be fought.
	www.kinoeye.org /03/07/neroni07.php (2491 words)

	Claire Denis
		Claire Denis creates an intelligently constructed, richly textured, and provocative exploration of human behavior, sexual attraction, and violence in No Fear, No Die.
		In illustrating the protagonists' inextricable immersion into the chaos and brutality of the inhumane bloodsport, Denis reveals the underlying influence of masculine competition and aggression in the everyday conduct of business and human transactions.
		Claire Denis presents a haunting and understatedly compelling meditation on longing, estrangement, and disconnection in I Can't Sleep.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/denis.html (812 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Claire Denis : Biography
		Born in Paris on April 21, 1948, Denis, the daughter of a civil servant, was raised in a series of African countries until she was 14, when her family returned to France.
		The film, which was inspired by Denis' own experiences in Africa and those of working amongst the stark Southwest landscapes of Paris, Texas, proved to be a very auspicious debut, screening at Cannes that year and earning both a Golden Palm nomination and a César nomination for Best New Director.
		Denis followed her debut the next year with Man No Run, a documentary about Les Têtes Brulées ("the Flaming Heads"), a Cameroon band on their first French tour.
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/77128/bio.jhtml (505 words)

	IFILM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Claire Denis' "Beau Travail" translates into English as "Good Work," and indeed, the film is about work, namely that of a troop of French Foreign Legionnaires in present-day East Africa's Djibouti.
		Denis and cinematographer Agnès Godard lavish loving attention on the bodies of the recruits as they perform their daily routines under the hot sun in slow, balletic movements.
		Instead, Denis almost languidly builds her story in long, unhurried sequences, many of which are absolutely breathtaking; this gradual evolution is then jarred, not by anything predictable in terms of the story, but instead by a stunning final sequence that offers a dramatic, joyous sense of release.
	vgn.ifilm.com /db/static_text/0,1699,1129,00.html (324 words)

	Trouble Every Day / 2001 / film review / Claire Denis / Vincent Gallo / Beatrice Dalle / French horror film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Also, it is fair to say that Claire Denis does overstep the mark in a few places, and the film could have benefited from some judicial editing.
		Denis’ mistake — if she has made a mistake at all — was in moving into new territory without refining her cinematic technique.
		Whilst it is not Claire Denis’ most accomplished or satisfying work, it should reaffirm, not negate, her credentials as a high-calibre director with a unique artistic vision.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_Trouble_Every_Day_rev.html (909 words)

	Salon Arts & Entertainment \| "Beau Travail"
		Claire Denis' baffling and exhilarating "Billy Budd" smolders with heat-blasted rhythms and supercharged acting.
		You could argue that one of the reasons Denis has been so good on the experience of immigrants, particularly fl and Arab immigrants, is that, having spent her childhood in Africa as the daughter of a civil servant (she was born in Paris), she herself grew up as an outsider.
		The deliberate, hypnotic pace, Denis' attempt to capture both the disciplined rhythms of the Foreign Legion's routine and the slightly drugged pace of life under the African sun, is at times merely monotonous.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2000/03/31/beau_travail?CP=SAL&DN=110 (1128 words)

	French Directors - Claire Denis
		Claire Denis takes the viewer on an emotional and strikingly visual memory trip back to the colonial Africa of her youth.
		Claire Denis punctuates the story with scenes of military training, brilliantly choreographed for the camera to emphasize the physicality that is the center of the film.
		Director Claire Denis handles the subject with grace, ignoring any notions of fate or metaphysical involvement in the couple's meeting to focus entirely on their physical attraction and interactions, which are filmed with subtle precision.
	www.multilingualbooks.com /foreignvids-fren-denis.html (611 words)

	French Culture \| Cinema \| Claire Denis: Beau Travail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Beau Travail is unlike anything Denis has made before: stark and stylised, it's a semi-vérité, semi-ballet fantasia, as well as an adaptation of two versions of Billy Budd - Herman Melville's original story and Benjamin Britten's opera, which is used on the soundtrack.
		Denis adopts the Billy Budd story wholesale - the ugly sergeant is threatened by a beautiful young recruit (Grégoire Colin, from The Dream Life of Angels) who appears to usurp his credit with the commanding officer, and so the sergeant plots the younger man's downfall.
		The film choreographs - literally - the homoerotic tensions of legion life: the corps exercises first resemble a mass of moving statues under the desert sun, then a bizarre ritual dance, as the men hurl themselves at each other to the thud of grunts and slapping chests, at once murderous and amorous.
	www.frenchculture.org /cinema/releases/denisclaire/beautravail.html (296 words)

	Paste Magazine :: Feature :: Claire Denis :: Intruding Beauty (Page 2)
		Denis is the co-writer of all her films, and a wide variety of resources provide inspiration—from Melville and Faulkner to her own experiences growing up in Africa and France.
		Denis’ film may build on those sunny works, but it begins in a different hemisphere—along the snowy, mountainous border between France and Switzerland.
		Denis herself has explored similar themes in her films: the racial tensions in Chocolat, a new soldier rejected by a seasoned drill sergeant in Beau Travail, and a stranger who climbs into a woman’s car, and bed, in Friday Night—intruders and foreigners walking the line between acceptance and rejection.
	www.pastemagazine.com /action/article?article_id=1325&page=2 (555 words)

	The Stranger - Film - Feature - The Realm of the Grapefruit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Denis' script (which she co-wrote with Emmanuèle Bernheim, the author of the novel that Vendredi Soir is based on), along with her direction, guides us to this fantastic territory that comes alive in the heart of the hotel room.
		Denis led the camera beyond paradise, beyond the limits of the flesh into the depths of the body--the gore of blood and organs.
		Alas, dear reader, Denis offered me a wonderful answer, which I cannot recall because I neglected to record it on paper or electronically--nor did the glasses of red wine help me retain her vital words in my head.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=15225 (969 words)

	AboutFilm.Com - Beau Travail (1999)
		Galoup (Denis Lavant) is their taskmaster, assiduously prepping the men with drills and exercises under the cryptic eye of the Commander, Bruno Forestier (Michel Subor, who played a character of the same name in Jean-Luc Godard's Le Petit Soldat).
		It's not clear whether Galoup's mounting obsession and hatred of Sentain is due to a denied homosexual attraction or if Galoup believes Sentain is diverting favor from the Commander that he used to bask in himself.
		Her woman's eye is crucial to this film because it is Denis and Godard's status as outsiders mesmerized by male ritual that imbues the film with an extra shading beyond what would typically be read as homoeroticism.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/b/beautravail.htm (833 words)

	French Culture \| Cinema \| Claire Denis: Friday Night (2001) / US DVD release 2003
		Friday Night is a sensual and beguiling story of romance between strangers from master director Claire Denis (Chocolat, Beau Travail).
		Exquisitely shot by Denis' longtime camerawoman Agnès Godard and with a lush score by Dickon Hinchliffe of the Tindersticks, Friday Night is a subtly erotic and lyrical ode to unexpected pleasures, to the independence of one's true self, and to the most beautiful city in the world.
		One of the world's most exciting and innovative directors, Claire Denis first won international acclaim in 1988 for her debut feature, Chocolat.
	info-france-usa.org /culture/cinema/releases/denisclaire/friday.html (313 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		“Trouble Every Day,” Claire Denis’ 12th film could almost be called a silent movie; instead of words her penetrating, crystalline, sensual images speak volumes about this meditation of a human being’s ability to love, our inability to love, and the hunger to love, carried out to its most extreme and unspeakable degree.
		Denis returned to Paris at the age of thirteen, and later enrolled in the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinematographique (IDHEC), from which she graduated in 1972.
		The idea for her first feature film, “Chocolat,” came to her while she was on location in the American South for Wim Wenders’ “Paris, Texas.” The landscape evoked memories of her youth, and she conceived of a semi-autobiographical story of racial tension in colonial Africa of the 1950s.
	www.lot47.com /troubleeveryday/trouble_pressnotes.doc (1241 words)

	The Stranger - Film - Feature - Two Beautiful People Gazing at Each Other (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Though inspired by these relationships, the beautiful surfaces in Denis' cinema are submerged in a watery world (be it the "dark fl blood" of 2001's Trouble Every Day or the natatorial blues of 1996's Nénette et Boni) whose elements or atoms are bonded by invisible, shifting forces of attraction.
		Claire Denis was born in Paris in 1948, and raised in a number of West and East African countries where her father worked as a civil servant.
		Instead of surrendering, the compromised sergeant stages a bitter psychological offensive against what he and the other soldiers see: the young man's dreamy movements in the sun, in the desert, at the seaside; the impeccable truth of his flesh, chest, nose, and, of course, eyes.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=14081 (969 words)

	Gerald Peary - interviews - Claire Denis
		Alas, it was simple to locate a seat last May for a conference with filmmaker Claire Denis and her crew – cinematographer Agnes Godard, actors Alex Descas and Florence Loiret-Caille – after the first Cannes 2001 showing of Trouble Every Day.
		Denis' director of photography, Agnes Varda, was asked about their long-time artistic collaboration.
		Claire is a filmmaker who relies mostly on images to tell her stories.
	www.geraldpeary.com /interviews/def/denis.html (619 words)

	Amazon.ca: DVD: Chocolat (Widescreen) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The influence of those mentors is apparent in Chocolat, Denis' debut feature, but it's the singularity of her organic vision that is most impressive.
		Claire Denis's Chocolat tells the tale of a french woman returning to africa to visit the home where she has spent her childhood.
		Protee has a complex and interesting relationship with France and her mother Aimee, it is the examination of this relationship that is the bulk of the film.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005J75R (888 words)

	Combustible Celluloid film review - Beau Travail (1999), Claire Denis, Denis Lavant, dvd review
		By all rights, these scenes should be boring, but Denis gets right to the spiritual and emotional core with her brilliant staging and long shots (cinematography by Agnes Godard).
		Denis, in tribute to him, cast him as the elder Legionnaire Bruno Forestier, whom Galoup goes to for advice.
		Denis, who is best known for her films Chocolat (1988), I Can't Sleep (1993), and Nénette and Boni (1996) has emerged as a major filmmaker with this, her most ambitious piece yet.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /beautrav.shtml (839 words)

	Friday Night review - movie review of the Claire Denis film starring Valérie Lemercier
		Wherever they are, Denis studies the environment, the mechanical gestures of people at work or the interaction of other customers.
		Denis finds beauty in the most simple things of life and transmits it to us.
		Lemercier & Lindon carry the film on their shoulders, underplaying it, and Lemercier's performance is especially striking as she takes on a role worlds apart from her personality and typical roles—she's probably one of the funniest Frenchwomen who started her career as a witty stand-up comic.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/fridaynight.html (502 words)

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