Claire Denis

...office is placed right next to the police dog kennels.) Composer Dickon Hinchliffe replays his wringing score from the Claire Denis film Trouble Every Day, and it sounds better than ever. The Ripper's isolated operations interested...

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...of female film-­makers now - Drew Barrymore makes her directorial debut this year, and there are films in the pipeline from Claire Denis, Gurinder Chadha, Nicole Holofcener, Julie Taymor and Sofia Coppola - perhaps others will be ­inspired,...

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...biopic Serge Gainsbourg: Je T'aime . . . moi non plus. Other highlights include Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky and new films from Claire Denis, Philippe Lioret, Robert Guediguian, Claude Chabrol, Cedric Kahn, Francois Ozon, Christophe Honore...

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...taking up one whole screen at a multiplex near you). Enjoy… 35 SHOTS OF RUM The latest work from French master director Claire Denis is a difficult film to encapsulate in a traditional review, because the means Denis uses to introduce us...

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French actor Alex Descas provides the graceful, mesmerizing anchor to "35 Shots of Rum," director Claire Denis' absorbing portrait of the love and letting go that define parenthood. Descas plays Lionel, a worker on the Paris metro system who...

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...any kind of conventional narrative form. On the contrary, if one were to watch Syndromes, Jia Zhang-Ke's Platform and Still Life, Claire Denis's Beau Travail, Wong Kar-Wai's In the Mood For Love, Hou Hsiao-hsien's Millennium Mambo and...

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"35 Shots of Rum" (NR): French filmmaker Claire Denis ("Chocolat") examines the lives and loves of a group of friends and neighbors living in a Parisian suburb. In French with English subtitles. South Bay opening. "Creation" (PG-13): A look...

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...condition known as "Pompe disease." Brendan Fraser and Keri Russell co-star. "35 Shots of Rum," opens Jan. 22. The latest from filmmaker Claire Denis concerns a train engineer, his university-student daughter and their life together on the...

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...some of these movies wouldn't appeal to most Americans. Take the aforementioned 35 Shots of Rum, directed by French filmmaker Claire Denis. The New York Times said that the movie "achieves a rare eloquence about the state of the world by...

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...who raised his children largely in French colonial Africa. "My father is a tolerant father," Denis said. "He is 85 now. He knew that in marrying my mother, he had to accept she had a father like that. He'd say, 'I can't be such a great...

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