Bloesem (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
L’Atelier Beau Travail sent me an email telling me that they are extending their beutiful exhibition till Saturday ...if you live or visit Paris this week, please visit!! Via the exhibition images on their blog I found the work by...
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... have intuitively attributed to Denis based on the films she made before (1999's Billy Budd parable Beau travail ) and after (2002's poetic ode to a one-night stand, Vendredi soir ). And her approach to horror is very unusual and idiosyncratic, even though she does eventually deliver enough gore and viscera to sate even the most jaded Saw franchise junkie. As Andrew O'Hehir described...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Director Claire Denis -- who was born in France but raised in colonial Africa -- enjoyed a measure of art-house buzz when she leapt onto the scene in 1989 with her film Chocolat (not to be confused with the awful 2000 Johnny Depp/Juliette Binoche movie of the same name). Siskel & Ebert praised it and Denis on their show at the time. In 2000, her film Beau Travail topped the Film...
mainlymovies (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
... rest of the fest will have trouble trumping White Material : I think it's Denis's best movie since Beau Travail , which is saying quite a lot, though the juxtaposition of this scorching territorial tug-of-war with the recently released 35 Shots of Rum does actually back up my belief that the latter film, despite contaning one of her single most gorgeous sequences, was otherwise a...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Claire Denis (Beau Travail) has achieved a strange success with 35 Shots of Rum, going back to the Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu’s wonderfully touching 1949 masterpiece Late Spring and remaking it – but setting this delicate, tragic tale of father-daughter love in the present day among a small, socially isolated community of black Caribbean commuter-train drivers in the Parisian suburbs....
