Claire Denis

Claire Denis

Born: April 21, 1946
in Paris, France
Claire Denis (born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and screenwriter. Her feature film Beau Travail (1999) has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s and of all time. Other acclaimed works include Trouble Every Day (2001), 35 Shots of Rum (2008), White Material (2009), High Life (2018) and Both Sides of the Blade (2022), the last of which won her the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival. For her film Stars at Noon (2022), Denis competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival. She won the Grand Prix, sharing the award with Lukas Dhont's film Close.

Her work has dealt with themes of colonial and post-colonial West Africa, as well as issues in modern France, and continues to influence European cinematic identity.

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Movies for Claire Denis...

Room 999
Title: Room 999
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 2023
Type: Movie
In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks Wim Wenders himself and a new generation of filmmakers (James Gray, Rebecca Zlotowski, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Nadav Lapid, Asghar Farhadi, Alice Rohrwacher and more) the same question: “is cinema a language about to get lost, an art about to die?”
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Claire Denis, les chemins de traverse
Title: Claire Denis, les chemins de traverse
Released: December 5, 2021
Type: Movie
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Wim Wenders, Desperado
Title: Wim Wenders, Desperado
Character: Self (archive sound)
Released: July 16, 2020
Type: Movie
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German Cinema and one of the most important and influential representatives of contemporary cinema. With never before shown archive material and extraordinary encounters with companions and contemporary witnesses such as Francis Ford Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Andie MacDowell, Hanns Zischler, Patti Smith and Werner Herzog, this documentary provides unique insights into the life and work of one of the most multifaceted artists of our times. Renowned documentary filmmaker Eric Friedler ("It Must Schwing. The Blue Note Story") and his co-director Andreas Frege were given the exclusive opportunity to portray Wenders for this film. From Dusseldorf to Paris, and all the way to the desert of Texas, the film traces iconic locations and decisive moments in Wenders' work as director, producer, photographer and author.
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Claire Denis : Leçon de cinéma
Title: Claire Denis : Leçon de cinéma
Character: Claire Denis
Released: September 27, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Quotidien
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 12, 2016
Type: TV
Quotidien is a French television program presented by Yann Barthès and broadcast from September 12, 2016 on TMC.
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Les réalisatrices contemporaines:  l'état des choses
Title: Les réalisatrices contemporaines: l'état des choses
Character: Self
Released: July 18, 2016
Type: Movie
Right at the heart of the debates on the discrimination of women in the film industry, this documentary raises questions, while offering a voice to women and their cinema. Catherine Breillat, Claire Denis, Mira Nair, Margarethe Von Trotta, Ulrike Ottinger, Micheline Lanctot, Rakshnan Bani-Etemad, María Novaro but also the names of the less visible directors of the general public. Joining the filmmakers are the voices and comments of producers, film specialists and archivists through whom our images are meticulously preserved.
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Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
Title: Truffaut / Godard, scénario d'une rupture
Character: Self
Released: May 12, 2016
Type: Movie
An inquiry into two of the most influencial French filmakers friendship and feud.
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The Breidjing Camp
Title: The Breidjing Camp
Character: Narrator
Released: December 4, 2015
Type: Movie
Claire Denis goes to Eastern Chad to the Breidjing camp, the home of 40,000 refugees from Darfur. With great humility, she tells the stories of these men and women, victims of one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes that this century has seen so far.
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Trespassing Bergman
Title: Trespassing Bergman
Character: Self
Released: August 28, 2013
Type: Movie
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, left Stockholm and went to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special cinephiles, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (An abridged version of Bergmans video, 2012.)
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Bergmans video
Title: Bergmans video
Character: Self
Released: August 22, 2012
Type: Movie
In the sixties, Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007) built a house on the remote island of Fårö, located in the Baltic Sea, left Stockholm and went to live there. When he died, the house was preserved. A group of very special cinephiles, came from all over the world, travel to Fårö in search of the genius and his legacy. (Released in 2013, edited and abridged, as Trespassing Bergman.)
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Granny's Funeral
Title: Granny's Funeral
Character: Une femme à l'enterrement
Released: June 19, 2012
Type: Movie
A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.
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Silence
Title: Silence
Character: Herself
Released: March 8, 2012
Type: Movie
Claire Denis visits Bergman's home, browses his collection, and discusses his impact on her work. Part of Trespassing Bergman.
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Aller au diable
Title: Aller au diable
Released: August 7, 2011
Type: Movie
He is an Aluku man, one of the five tribes of Maroons who survives in the forest during 400 years after escaping from the Dutch sugarcane plantations. All the Maroons are issued originally from the West coast of Africa. They were taken as slaves.
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Title: Leçon de Cinéma
Character: Self
Released: March 20, 2004
Type: TV
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Children of Salò
Title: Children of Salò
Character: Self
Released: October 24, 2002
Type: Movie
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Purely Coincidental
Title: Purely Coincidental
Character: Self (Cameo appearance)
Released: May 17, 2002
Type: Movie
A handful of student revolutionaries from the Seventies meet up 30 years later to plan a robbery. This is not entirely correct, because they are friends, anyway, and always have been. They play cards together and go to each others’ birthday parties, have wives and children and probably mortgages. Romain Goupil’s film appears to be a throwback to the experimental days of cinema verite. Either that or it’s a home movie, shot with a video camera, to an improvised script or no script at all.
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Title: Through the Night with...
Character: Self
Released: May 10, 2002
Type: TV
Durch die Nacht mit … is a German documentary film television series produced by ZDF for Franco-German television channel ARTE. Locations are mainly in France or Germany. The title of the French version is Au cœur de la nuit. Two Celebrities spend an filmed evening together. One of them is the host who sets the location and the program. There is no moderator.
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Heart of the Festival
Title: Heart of the Festival
Character: Self
Released: April 16, 2002
Type: Movie
A short film containing some of the highlights of the Cannes Film Festival's storied history.
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Venus Beauty Institute
Title: Venus Beauty Institute
Character: La cliente asmathique
Released: February 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliating situation, younger sculptor Antoine becomes so smitten that he breaks up with his fiancée and sets out to win Angèle's heart. Meanwhile, Angèle attempts to quash the budding romance of her young co-worker, Marie, and a much older widowed client, despite their obvious rapport.
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Le Jour de Noël
Title: Le Jour de Noël
Released: March 1, 1998
Type: Movie
Twenty-four hours in the life of a young musician, Noël Akchoté, in his dealings with improvisation, technique, money, concerts, studios, guitars, history, independents, majors. Between fiction and documentary, between laughter and seriousness, a "jazz" portrait.
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Long Live the Republic
Title: Long Live the Republic
Released: November 5, 1997
Type: Movie
A group of young unemployed people from Le Mans (France) decide to create a new political party.
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Claire Denis, The Vagabond
Title: Claire Denis, The Vagabond
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
In an arrestingly filmed interview (with the questions omitted), Denis offers a spirited and insightful discussion of her films and career. She talks about her films, her career, the directors she admires - such as Renoir and Ozu - the writing of Frantz Fanon, and her convictions in regard to light, sound, montage, tracking shots, and the role of dialogue, which is subordinate to image in her films.
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To Have (Or Not)
Title: To Have (Or Not)
Character: Alice's Mother
Released: December 27, 1995
Type: Movie
Alice, fired from her job on an assembly line, leaves her boyfriend and provincial home for an uncertain new life in Lyon. There she encounters Bruno, a construction worker who's just been dumped and is severely depressed. Romantic possibilities ensue.
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Talking with Ozu
Title: Talking with Ozu
Character: Self
Released: November 27, 1993
Type: Movie
A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki Kaurismäki, Stanley Kwan, Paul Schrader, and Wim Wenders
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Jacques Rivette, the Watchman
Title: Jacques Rivette, the Watchman
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: February 24, 1990
Type: Movie
This film of interviews with the film director Jacques Rivette was produced in collaboration with Serge Daney, film critic from “Cahiers du cinéma”, then of “Liberation”. In the course of their conversations, the two speakers discuss Rivette’s career, his relationships with the other film makers of the new wave, his use of “mise en scene” and his working with actors.
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Mais où et donc Ornicar
Title: Mais où et donc Ornicar
Character: Jeune accouchée
Released: February 28, 1979
Type: Movie
They are in their thirties. They have now children, an appartment, a work, cars... and still have loves, dreams and passions. They will meet each other, leave each other, under the eye of their kids.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV