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Claire Denis

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  • 1946 - Present Day

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Claire Denis (French: [dəni]; born 21 April 1946 in Paris) is a French auteur film director and writer. Denis is widely regarded as one of the strongest female voices in contemporary world cinema. Her film Beau Travail (1999) is considered a modern masterpiece and one of the greatest female-directed films in the history of cinema. Other acclaimed works include Trouble every Day (2001), 35 Shots of Rum (2008), White Material (2009) and High Life (2018). Her work has had a lasting impact on European cinematic identity and has dealt with themes of colonial and post-colonial West Africa, as well as issues in modern France. She is known for her elliptical shooting style and the nonverbal interactions between her protagonists, which she is showing in many close-ups that remain relentlessly on the faces and bodies of her actors. The subject's body in space, and how the particular terrain, weather, and color of the landscape influences and interacts with the human subjects of her films maintains cinematic dominance. Denis was born in Paris, but raised in colonial French Africa, where she spent her childhood living in West Africa with her parents and her younger sister. Her father was a civil servant, living in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, French Somaliland, and Senegal. It has been a strong influence on her films, which have dealt with themes of colonialism and post-colonialism in Africa. Growing up there, Denis used to watch the old and damaged copies of war films sent from the United States. Because her parents wanted their children to finish their education in France, she moved with her mother and sister to a Parisian suburb at the age of 14, a country that she hardly knew at all. Denis initially studied economics, but later studied at the IDHEC, the French film school, where she graduated. Since 2002, she has been a Professor of Film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. She started her film career by working as the assistant director for acclaimed filmmakers Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch in Paris, Texas (1984), Down by Law (1986) and Wings of Desire (1987). Her debut feature film Chocolat (1988), a semi-autobiographical meditation on African colonialism, was praised by critics and audiences alike as a remarkable first film and was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. With films such as US Go Home (1994), Nénette et Boni (1996), Beau Travail (1999), set in Africa; Trouble Every Day (2001), and Vendredi soir (2002), she established a reputation as a filmmaker who "has been able to reconcile the lyricism of French cinema with the impulse to capture the often harsh face of contemporary France." She returned to Africa again with White Material (2009) starring Isabelle Huppert, set in an unidentified country during a time of civil war. In 2017, she cast Juliette Binoche as the lead in Un beau soleil intérieur. Her first English-language debut film, High Life, is set in space, with Robert Pattinson as the lead and will premiere in 2018.

Birthday: 1946-04-21

Born At: Paris, France

Casted In:

En avoir (ou pas)
124642
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
125336
Claire Denis, The Vagabond
210119
Trespassing Bergman
250280
The Breidjing Camp
400807
Talking With Ozu
436049

Crewed In:

Der Himmel über Berlin
144
Paris, Texas
655
Beau travail
14626
Offret
24657
35 rhums
26191
Trouble Every Day
40723
Chocolat
41951
Vendredi soir
45044
White Material
46207
L'intrus
47143
Contre l'oubli
49116
J'ai pas sommeil
64900
Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
79591
S'en fout la mort
97041
Nénette et Boni
99002
Sérail
100262
U.S. Go Home
124491
المدينة
125501
Jacques Rivette, le veilleur
137864
To the Devil
163309
Les Salauds
179109
Vers Mathilde
180921
Nice, Very Nice
183805
Vers Nancy
187505
Man No Run
211921
For Ushari Ahmed Mahmoud
216331
Lilian Thuram
216722
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
220709
Voilà l'enchaînement
296623
Contact
346854
Keep It for Yourself
371522
The Breidjing Camp
400807
Un beau soleil intérieur
431017
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